{"id":308621,"date":"2019-01-29T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308621"},"modified":"2019-01-29T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T09:43:10","slug":"rahul-gandhi-meets-goa-cm-manohar-parrikar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-meets-goa-cm-manohar-parrikar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi meets Goa CM Manohar Parrikar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-308624 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190129-151105__01-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190129-151105__01-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190129-151105__01-768x631.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190129-151105__01-696x572.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190129-151105__01-511x420.jpg 511w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190129-151105__01.jpg 927w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar in Goa. Gandhi was seen walking in to the chief minister&#8217;s office in Panaji.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This meeting came after Gandhi alleged that the audio recordings which are in Parrikar\u2019s possession related to Rafale jet deal were authentic and that Parrikar was using the \u201cexplosive secrets\u201d that give him power over the PM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi tweeted on Monday, \u201c30 days since the Goa Audio Tapes on RAFALE were released. No FIR or enquiry ordered. No action against the Minister either! It&#8217;s obvious that the tapes are authentic &amp; that Goa CM, Parrikar, is in possession of explosive RAFALE secrets, that give him power over the PM.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi is in Goa on a personal vacation with his mother Sonia Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress party claimed to have an audio recording of a Goa minister quoted Parrikar as saying that files related to the Rafale jet deal were in his bedroom. However, Parrikar had tweeted that the audio clip was a &#8220;desperate attempt to fabricate facts&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Parrikar was the defence minister when the deal for 36 Rafale jets was signed between India and France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar in Goa. Gandhi was seen walking in to the chief minister&#8217;s office in Panaji.\u00a0 This meeting came after Gandhi alleged that the audio recordings which are in Parrikar\u2019s possession related to Rafale jet deal were authentic and that Parrikar was using the \u201cexplosive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2922,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[2025,3044,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308626,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308621\/revisions\/308626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}