{"id":14417,"date":"2016-05-26T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=14417"},"modified":"2016-05-26T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:31:02","slug":"more-than-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/26\/more-than-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actress-turned politician, Angoorlata Deka wasn\u2019t congratulated on her success, rather by using social media, people have focused more on her beauty than her victory.<\/p>\n<p>Only a scarce amount has been conveyed about her campaign or her victory in Assam, so inept are people of looking beyond her physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p>People have very good-naturedly pointed out that her (exquisite) presence in Assembly could potentially mean full attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma tweeted: \u201cIf MLA can look like this, Achche din aagaye hai.. Thank you Angoorlataji, Thank you Modiji, 1<sup>st<\/sup> time I love politics\u201d which evoked a huge response from others on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He was heavily critisized, someone tweeted: \u201c@RGVzoomin I am disappointed reading your comment, you should support young woman for taking this responsibility not looking at her in a dirty way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker explained his comments about BJP MLA Angoorlata Deka, by tweeting: &#8220;With regards to my comment on Angoorlataji,I was just paying a compliment to her. since most MLA&#8217;s don&#8217;t look good it was such a change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A series of pictures spread like wildfire across the web, pictures that were not even of Deka.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is of Sapna Vyas Patel, a fitness enthusiast, who has announced via twitter: &#8220;Some people are circulating this picture without knowing the truth. Share this truth on WhatsApp groups and other social media to make internet a believable source of information.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress-turned politician, Angoorlata Deka wasn\u2019t congratulated on her success, rather by using social media, people have focused more on her beauty than her victory. Only a scarce amount has been conveyed about her campaign or her victory in Assam, so inept are people of looking beyond her physical appearance. People have very good-naturedly pointed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-politics-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}