{"id":198,"date":"2000-11-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/05\/2000-11-05-trinidad-s-hindu-pm-likely-to-return-to-office\/"},"modified":"2000-11-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-05T12:00:00","slug":"2000-11-05-trinidad-s-hindu-pm-likely-to-return-to-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/05\/2000-11-05-trinidad-s-hindu-pm-likely-to-return-to-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad&#8217;s Hindu PM likely to return to office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hinduism Today: Anil Mahabir, Trinidad Correspondent<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>PORT LOUIS, TRINIDAD: Trinidadians will go to the polls to elect a new government on Monday, December 11, 2000. The two major parties in the race are: the UNC, widely touted as &#8220;the Indian\/Hindu party&#8221; which is led by Basdeo Panday and the PNM, which is seen as the &#8220;African\/Christian party&#8221; led by Patrick Manning. The country is presently run by a Hindu Prime minister in Basdeo Panday. All the recent polls seem to suggest that the incumbent government (the UNC) will return to office, however, it is premature to come to a conclusion. The PNM has vowed to re-visit all the legislation passed &#8220;by the Hindu Prime Minister,&#8221; especially the &#8220;blasphemous libel law&#8221; which makes it illegal for anyone to publicly criticize any of the world&#8217;s religions. The PNM only wants it to protect the &#8220;Christian faith against the pagans&#8221;&#8211;as did the original English Common Law version in force up to this year. Things are peaceful in a country which has never seen a single act of election violence even when, in 1995, the country got its first Hindu Prime Minister.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hinduism Today: Anil Mahabir, Trinidad Correspondent PORT LOUIS, TRINIDAD: Trinidadians will go to the polls to elect a new,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}