{"id":309320,"date":"2019-02-14T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309320"},"modified":"2019-02-14T08:33:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:33:26","slug":"rajasthan-rahul-gandhi-addresses-national-convention-of-congress-seva-dal-in-ajmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-rahul-gandhi-addresses-national-convention-of-congress-seva-dal-in-ajmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: Rahul Gandhi addresses national convention of Congress Seva Dal in Ajmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309321 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rahul-gandhi-.....-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/rahul-gandhi-.....-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/rahul-gandhi-.....-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/rahul-gandhi-.....-696x454.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/rahul-gandhi-.....-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/rahul-gandhi-.....-644x420.jpg 644w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/rahul-gandhi-......jpg 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday arrived at Ajmer, Rajasthan to address Congress\u2019 Seva Dal National Convention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was accompanied by Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing the gathering, Rahul said, \u201cWe need to start a new beginning need to be strengthened. We should understand that we cannot fight BJP&#8217;s hate with hate. I hugged Modi to remove that hatred.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cModi said, India was a sleeping giant before 2014. He means that Pt. Nehru, Dr Ambedkar, our farmers, small businesses did not do anything before him. He is not insulting Congress by saying this but insulting the people of this country. BJP-RSS believe that India is a product that should benefit a handful of their richest friends,\u201d Rahul said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While talking about farm loans, Rahul said, \u201cWe waived off farm loans in Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Punjab, whereas Modi waived off loans worth \u20b93,50,000Cr of people like Anil Ambani, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress party believed in justice, but BJP does not get affected if farmers commit suicide or people have to stand in queues during Demonetisation. Their sole intention is to benefit India&#8217;s richest,\u201d Rahul added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After addressing party workers in Rajasthan\u2019s Ajmer, Rahul Gandhi will kickstart the party\u2019s Gujarat campaign from Valsad today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This will be Rahul\u2019s first visit to Gujarat in nearly a year after he led the Congress campaign for the 2017 assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday arrived at Ajmer, Rajasthan to address Congress\u2019 Seva Dal National Convention. He was accompanied by Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot. While addressing the gathering, Rahul said, \u201cWe need to start a new beginning need to be strengthened. We should understand that we cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[9878,579,1478,10850],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309320"}],"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=309320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309322,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309320\/revisions\/309322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}