{"id":30933,"date":"2020-08-08T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T08:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30933"},"modified":"2020-08-08T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T08:38:53","slug":"rahul-slams-govt-over-asha-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30933","title":{"rendered":"Rahul slams govt over ASHA workers&#8217; strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11708603_Rahul-slams-govt-over-ASHA-workers--strike.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the Centre on Saturday over the ASHA health workers&#8217; strike to press for better service conditions and benefits, saying the government was &#8220;mute&#8221; already, but now maybe &#8220;blind and deaf&#8221; also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;ASHA workers take health protection to homes across the country. They are truly health warriors, but today they are forced to go on strike for their own rights,&#8221; Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tagged a media report about workers under the ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist), anganwadi, and National Health Mission being on a two-day nationwide strike from Friday to press for better service conditions and benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The government was mute already, but now maybe blind and deaf also,&#8221; the former Congress president said.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the Centre on Saturday over the ASHA health workers&#8217; strike to press for better service conditions and benefits, saying the government was &#8220;mute&#8221; already, but now maybe &#8220;blind and deaf&#8221; also. &#8220;ASHA workers take health protection to homes across the country. They are truly health warriors, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30933","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\/30933","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=30933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}