{"id":58891,"date":"2018-04-18T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58891"},"modified":"2018-04-18T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T00:56:11","slug":"tamil-nadu-governor-banwarilal-purohit-apologises-to-journalist-lakshmi-subramanian-of-the-week-for-patting-her-cheek-at-a-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=58891","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit Apologises to Journalist Lakshmi Subramanian of &#8220;The Week&#8221; for Patting Her Cheek at a Press Conference."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the wake of criticism of his action of patting a woman journalist\u2019s cheek after she posed a query at a recent press conference, Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has said it was an \u201cact of appreciation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a signed letter addressed to Lakshmi Subramanian of The Week, Mr. Purohit says: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have received your email dated 18.04.2018. You had asked a question when we had got up and were proceeding to leave after the close of the press conference. I consider that question to be a good one. Therefore, as an act of appreciation for the question that you had posed, I gave a pat on your cheek considering you to be like my granddaughter. It was done with affection and to express my appreciation for your performance as a journalist, since I was also a member of that profession for about 40 years. I do understand from your mail that you\u2019re feeling hurt about the incident. I wish to express my regret and my apologies to assauge your sentiments that have been hurt. I suppose you will respond through a mail of acknowledgement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Subramanian accepted the apology in a tweet, but said she was not \u201cconvinced about your contention that you did it appreciate a question I asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Hindu<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton58891\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D58891&amp;text=Tamil%20Nadu%20Governor%20Banwarilal%20Purohit%20Apologises%20to%20Journalist%20Lakshmi%20Subramanian%20of%20%26%238220%3BThe%20Week%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>In the wake of criticism of his action of patting a woman journalist\u2019s cheek after she posed a query at a recent press conference, Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has said it was an \u201cact of appreciation<\/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\/58891"}],"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=58891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58892,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58891\/revisions\/58892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}