{"id":1022766,"date":"2026-07-22T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022766"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:03:49","slug":"iit-roorkee-gag-order-asks-students-and-staff-to-avoid-political-opinions-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/iit-roorkee-gag-order-asks-students-and-staff-to-avoid-political-opinions-online\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Roorkee gag order asks students and staff to avoid political opinions online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IIT Roorkee has asked its students and staff not to post political opinions on public platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes against the backdrop of the Cockroach Janta Party&#8217;s protest demanding the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. <\/p>\n<p>The tech school is learnt to have written to students and employees reminding them about the institute&#8217;s conduct rules that disallow the expression of political opinions on public platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IIT Roorkee has asked its students and staff not to post political opinions on public platforms. The move comes against the backdrop of the Cockroach Janta Party&#8217;s protest demanding the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The tech school is learnt to have written to students and employees reminding them about the institute&#8217;s conduct rules that disallow the expression of political opinions on public platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022781,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022766\/revisions\/1022781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}