{"id":7731,"date":"2026-08-17T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:10:35","slug":"our-elders-are-our-pride-not-props-for-political-publicity-raja-warring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/?p=7731","title":{"rendered":"Our elders are our pride, not props for political publicity- Raja Warring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-text text-body font-normal\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"font-chirp max-w-full whitespace-pre-wrap break-words text-inherit text-[length:inherit] font-inherit\">Bhagwant Mann\u2019s government has allegedly turned Independence Day into a publicity stunt, with Health Department employees reportedly presented as elderly beneficiaries of successful knee replacement surgeries despite never undergoing the procedure. A spectacle of lies in the name of August 15! Elderly people were made to dance before the cameras and presented as beneficiaries. A staged performance was then projected as a major achievement of the government\u2019s so called \u201chealth revolution.\u201d Punjab\u2019s hospitals need doctors, medicines and real treatment, not propaganda and photo ops. Our elders deserve dignity. Punjab deserves the truth.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"relative\">\n<div class=\"aspect-[25\/17] overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"scrollbar-hide flex h-full min-h-0 snap-x snap-mandatory gap-2 overflow-x-auto [&amp;::-webkit-scrollbar]:hidden\">\n<div class=\"h-full min-h-0 w-[85%] shrink-0 snap-center overflow-hidden rounded-md border border-gray-200\">\n<div class=\"relative h-full w-full\">\n<div class=\"h-full w-full\">\n<div class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\">\n<div class=\"group relative isolate z-0 flex aspect-video h-full w-full overflow-hidden bg-black tabular-nums\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our elders are our pride, not props for political publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Bhagwant Mann\u2019s government has allegedly turned Independence Day into a publicity stunt, with Health Department employees reportedly presented as elderly beneficiaries of successful knee replacement surgeries despite\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yFYlR8zVWM\">pic.twitter.com\/yFYlR8zVWM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amarinder Singh Raja Warring (@RajaBrar_INC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RajaBrar_INC\/status\/2089213875971670362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhagwant Mann\u2019s government has allegedly turned Independence Day into a publicity stunt, with Health Department employees reportedly presented as elderly beneficiaries of successful knee replacement surgeries despite never undergoing the procedure. A spectacle of lies in the name of August 15! Elderly people were made to dance before the cameras and presented as beneficiaries. A staged performance was then projected as a major achievement of the government\u2019s so called \u201chealth revolution.\u201d Punjab\u2019s hospitals need doctors, medicines and real treatment, not propaganda and photo ops. Our elders deserve dignity. Punjab deserves the truth. Our elders are our pride, not props for political publicity. Bhagwant Mann\u2019s government has allegedly turned Independence Day into a publicity stunt, with Health Department employees reportedly presented as elderly beneficiaries of successful knee replacement surgeries despite\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/yFYlR8zVWM \u2014 Amarinder Singh Raja Warring (@RajaBrar_INC) August 17, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7734,"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samachar18news.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}