{"id":309372,"date":"2019-02-15T07:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309372"},"modified":"2019-02-15T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:57:14","slug":"pulwama-terror-attack-rahul-gandhi-says-congress-stands-with-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pulwama-terror-attack-rahul-gandhi-says-congress-stands-with-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulwama terror attack: Rahul Gandhi says Congress stands with government"},"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-302003 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Rahul-press-conference-300x144.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rahul-press-conference-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rahul-press-conference-696x335.png 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rahul-press-conference.png 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/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 and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Friday addressed media on terror attacks in Pulwama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul said that he and his Congress party would support the government and would &#8220;not get into any other discussion for the next couple of days&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe entire opposition will stand together with our jawans and our Govt,\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;\">Rahul Gandhi said this is a terrible tragedy. This type of violence done against our security forces is absolutely disgusting. The aim of terrorism is to divide this country and we are not going to be divided<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former prime minister Manmohan Singh said that it was not the time to raise any contentious issue, \u201cAs the Congress President put it, today is the day of mourning. Our country has lost close to 40 jawans of the armed forces. Our foremost duty is to convey to the families that we are with them,\u201d Manmohan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Congress party stands in full support of our jawans and their families. We will do all that is necessary to keep this nation united,\u201d Manmohan added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said terror outfits and their perpetrators had made a big mistake by carrying out the attack at Pulwama and those responsible would pay a heavy price for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday, at least 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)\u00a0personnel\u00a0lost their lives and several others injured after\u00a0terrorists targeted a convoy with a powerful\u00a0explosive\u00a0at Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress President Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Friday addressed media on terror attacks in Pulwama. Rahul said that he and his Congress party would support the government and would &#8220;not get into any other discussion for the next couple of days&#8221;. \u201cThe entire opposition will stand together with our jawans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[857,10854,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309372"}],"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=309372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309376,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309372\/revisions\/309376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}