{"id":30860,"date":"2020-08-07T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30860"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:23:08","slug":"as-covid-19-cases-mount-rahul-gandhi-attacks-modi-govt-in-rhyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30860","title":{"rendered":"As COVID-19 cases mount, Rahul Gandhi attacks Modi govt. in rhyme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>\u2018The 20-lakh figure has been crossed and the Modi government has disappeared,\u2019 the former Congress president tweeted in Hindi<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As novel coronavirus cases crossed the 20-lakh mark, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday took to Twitter to once again target the Narendra Modi government over its COVID-19 handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He retweeted his July 17 tweet, in which he had predicted 2 million cases by August 10, with a fresh comment that rhymed in Hindi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c20 lakh ka aankra paar, Gayaab hain Modi Sarkar [20-lakh figure has been crossed and the Modi government has disappeared],\u201d tweeted Mr. Gandhi that tweaks BJP\u2019s 2014 election campaign slogan of Abi ki baar, Modi Sarkar [This time, Modi government]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For several weeks now, the Congress leader has been targeting the Prime Minister regularly over his handling of the Chinese intrusion and the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, addressing party colleagues from Bihar through videoconferencing, Mr. Gandhi claimed that economic losses due to COVID-19 would mount four times the current levels because of inept handling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Congress has been making a case for direct cash transfers to the poorer sections such as migrant workers, construction workers and farm labour and for protecting small and medium enterprises with a special package from the Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The 20-lakh figure has been crossed and the Modi government has disappeared,\u2019 the former Congress president tweeted in Hindi As novel coronavirus cases crossed the 20-lakh mark, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday took to Twitter to once again target the Narendra Modi government over its COVID-19 handling. He retweeted his July 17 tweet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30860","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\/30860","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=30860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}