{"id":221001,"date":"2026-04-20T02:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221001"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:48:01","slug":"veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221001","title":{"rendered":"Veerappan\u2019s family enters electoral politics in Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veerappan&#8217;s daughter and widow are contesting elections in Tamil Nadu. They aim to redefine the forest brigand&#8217;s image from an outlaw to a Tamil rights defender. Vidhyarani, his daughter, is running from Mettur. Muthulakshmi, his widow, is contesting from Krishnagiri. Both are campaigning on platforms of Tamil nationalism and agrarian distress&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/elections\/assembly-elections\/tamil-nadu\/veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu\/articleshow\/130187791.cms\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veerappan&#8217;s daughter and widow are contesting elections in Tamil Nadu. They aim to redefine the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu.cms",400,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu-150x150.cms",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu-300x225.cms",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu.cms",400,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu.cms",400,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu.cms",400,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu.cms",400,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu.cms",400,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu.cms",400,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221001-veerappans-family-enters-electoral-politics-in-tamil-nadu.cms",400,300,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}