{"id":487,"date":"2020-02-25T21:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=487"},"modified":"2020-02-25T21:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:21:13","slug":"indian-opponent-malaysian-pm-mahathir-submits-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/02\/25\/indian-opponent-malaysian-pm-mahathir-submits-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Opponent, Malaysian PM Mahathir submits resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-12.png\" alt=\"Malaysian PM Mahathir\" class=\"wp-image-488\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-12.png 875w, https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-12-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-12-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 94 year old, one of the oldest Leader of the the world has submitted a letter of resignation to the country\u2019s king, his office said on Monday, leaving the government in limbo amid talk of forming a new governing coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Mohamad, whose father Mohamad Iskandar was a Penang Malay of partly Indian ancestry, has had a history of embarrassing India on global stage with unflinching regularity. Perhaps, a trait that traces its origin to denial of his Indian ancestry that has been highlighted by six Prime Ministers of Malay descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India, the world\u2019s largest edible oil buyer,  effectively halted imports from its largest supplier and the world\u2019s second-biggest producer in response to comments from Mahathir attacking India\u2019s domestic policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi is also unhappy with Malaysia\u2019s refusal to revoke permanent resident status for controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, who has lived in Malaysia for about three years and faces charges of money laundering and hate speech in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us hope for Indian friendly leader soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 94 year old, one of the oldest Leader of the the world has submitted a letter of resignation to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[204,205,206],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-indian-opponent","tag-malaysian-pm-mahathir","tag-malaysian-pm-mahathir-submits-resignation"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}