{"id":309668,"date":"2019-02-21T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T09:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309668"},"modified":"2019-02-21T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T09:06:49","slug":"pm-modi-was-shooting-film-at-corbett-when-nation-was-mourning-pulwama-attack-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-was-shooting-film-at-corbett-when-nation-was-mourning-pulwama-attack-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi was shooting film at Corbett when nation was mourning Pulwama attack: Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300845 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsurjewala-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rsurjewala-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rsurjewala-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rsurjewala.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress party on Thursday hit out at the Centre over the Pulwama attack. The Congress accused Modi of shooting a documentary in the Corbett National Park on the day of the Pulwama terror and continuing filming even after news of the deadly attack emerged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, PM Modi continued shooting film at the Corbett after the news of killing of 40 CRPF jawans broke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing a press conference, Surjewala attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not giving the issue its due importance. \u201cWhen the whole country was mourning the loss of lives of our jawans in Pulwam Attack in the afternoon, PM Narendra Modi was busy shooting for a film in Jim Corbett park till evening. Is there any PM in the world like this?\u201d Surjewala said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The terror attack happened at 3:10 pm, but PM Modi was busy shooting for his promotional film till 6:40 pm,\u201d Surjewala added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surjewala\u2019s attack was based on media reports that claimed PM Modi was in Nainital shooting on February 14, after the news of Pulwama attack broke in afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surjewala also slammed the BJP government of politicising the attacks, saying &#8220;Amit Shah politicised the soldiers&#8217; martyrdom at a poll rally that the sacrifice of soldiers would not go waste as it was a BJP government in power and not Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress said, they are bringing facts to public knowledge that how PM Modi insulted the memory of dead soldiers by shooting a film in Corbett National Park right after their death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, the Congress had extended their support to the government in this time of trial.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress party on Thursday hit out at the Centre over the Pulwama attack. The Congress accused Modi of shooting a documentary in the Corbett National Park on the day of the Pulwama terror and continuing filming even after news of the deadly attack emerged. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, PM Modi continued shooting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[10911,316,10854,2311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309668"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309674,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309668\/revisions\/309674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}