{"id":48402,"date":"2016-09-11T18:25:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48402"},"modified":"2016-09-11T18:25:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:25:38","slug":"maverick-indian-politician-dr-subramanian-swamy-of-bjp-honoured-with-tamil-ratna-award-by-american-tamil-sangam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48402","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Maverick&#8221; Indian Politician Dr.Subramanian Swamy  of BJP Honoured with  &#8220;Tamil Ratna&#8221; Award by American  Tamil Sangam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has been honoured with &#8216;Tamil Ratna&#8217; award by a body of Tamil diaspora here for fighting corruption and working for more transparency in the functioning of the government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The America Tamil Sangam awarded the &#8216;Tamil Ratna&#8217; to the senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP, who is currently on a visit to the US.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Sangam&#8217;s president Prakash Swamy highlighted the BJP leader&#8217;s contribution to fighting corruption and working for more transparency and accountability in the functioning of the government, a statement issued by the organisation said here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement quoted the BJP leader as saying that India is &#8220;again wielding considerable clout in the world arena and projecting the message that it can be governed in the most transparent manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previous Tamil Ratna awardees include Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman and movie director Bharathi Raja.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy: New Indian Express<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton48402\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D48402&amp;text=%26%238220%3BMaverick%26%238221%3B%20Indian%20Politician%20Dr.Subramanian%20Swamy%20%20of%20BJP%20Honoured%20with%20%20%26%238220%3BTamil%20Ratna%26%238221%3B...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has been honoured with &#8216;Tamil Ratna&#8217; award by a body of Tamil diaspora here for fighting corruption and working for more transparency in the functioning of the government. The America Tamil Sangam awarded the &#8216;Tamil Ratna&#8217; to the senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP, who is currently on a visit &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=48402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Maverick&#8221; Indian Politician Dr.Subramanian Swamy  of BJP Honoured with  &#8220;Tamil Ratna&#8221; Award by American  Tamil Sangam&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48403,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48402\/revisions\/48403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}