{"id":30030,"date":"2020-07-19T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30030"},"modified":"2020-07-19T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T16:13:07","slug":"bjp-has-institutionalised-lies-and-india-will-have-to-pay-a-price-says-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30030","title":{"rendered":"BJP has \u2018institutionalised\u2019 lies and India will have to pay a price, says Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>The Congress leader says the ruling party lied on COVID-19 by \u2018restricting testing and misreporting deaths\u2019, the GDP by using a \u2018new calculation method\u2019, and Chinese aggression by \u2018frightening the media\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday mounted a fresh attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and accused the ruling part of \u2018institutionalising\u2019 lies by manipulating the data on novel coronavirus-related deaths, the Gross Domestic Product, the stand-off with China and asserted that \u2018India will have to pay the price\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe BJP has institutionalised lies \u2014 [on] COVID-19 by restricting testing and misreporting deaths; [on] GDP by using a new calculation method; and [on] Chinese aggression by frightening the media. The illusion will break soon and India will pay the price,\u201d Mr. Gandhi tweeted and tagged a report of The Washington Post that claimed India\u2019s COVID-19 death figures were either \u2018misreported or missed\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BJP has institutionalised lies.<br><br>1. Covid19 by restricting testing and misreporting deaths.<br>2. GDP by using a new calculation method.<br>3. Chinese aggression by frightening the media.<br><br>The illusion will break soon and India will pay the price.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YR9b1kD1wB\">https:\/\/t.co\/YR9b1kD1wB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RahulGandhi\/status\/1284714762945740800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Gandhi\u2019s latest offensive came barely a few hours after he had compared the government of India\u2019s handling of the Chinese face-off to Neville Chamberlain, former British PM ill-famed for his appeasement of Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a day before, he had claimed that India would cross the two million-mark in COVID-19 cases by August 10 if the Union government did not take concrete measures to tackle the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/bjp-has-institutionalised-lies-and-india-will-have-to-pay-a-price-says-rahul-gandhi\/article32129311.ece?homepage=true\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress leader says the ruling party lied on COVID-19 by \u2018restricting testing and misreporting deaths\u2019, the GDP by using a \u2018new calculation method\u2019, and Chinese aggression by \u2018frightening the media\u2019 Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday mounted a fresh attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and accused the ruling part of \u2018institutionalising\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}