{"id":311194,"date":"2019-04-11T05:45:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311194"},"modified":"2019-04-11T05:45:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T05:45:36","slug":"no-jobs-demonetisation-violence-lies-rahul-gandhi-asks-people-to-vote-wisely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/no-jobs-demonetisation-violence-lies-rahul-gandhi-asks-people-to-vote-wisely\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Jobs. Demonetisation, Violence, Lies\u2019: Rahul Gandhi asks people to vote wisely"},"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-300436 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rahul-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-696x702.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-416x420.jpg 416w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the voting began for 91 constituencies for the Lok Sabha Elections 2019, the political parties started tweeting to voters asking them to come out in large numbers and vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched an attack on the Modi government through his tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNo 2 Crore JOBS. No 15 Lakhs in Bank A\/C. No ACCHE DIN. Instead: No JOBS. DEMONETISATION. Farmers in Pain. GABBAR SINGH TAX. Suit Boot Sarkar. RAFALE. Lies. Lies. Lies. Distrust. Violence. HATE. Fear. You vote today for the soul of India. For her future. Vote wisely,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress also put out a message on its official Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Today you decide. Love over hate. Jobs over\u00a0pakoda. Policies over propaganda. One nation over division. Vote for Congress. Vote for you. Today you pledge,&#8221; the Congress tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged first-time voters\u00a0to turn up at polling booths\u00a0in large numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c2019 Lok Sabha elections commence today. I call upon all those whose constituencies are voting in the first phase today to turn out in record numbers and exercise their franchise. I specially urge young and first-time voters to vote in large numbers,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP president Amit Shah took to his twitter account and tweeted, \u201cAs the voting for the first phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will begin today, i request each and every voter to come out and vote. The power of democracy lies in your single vote, your one vote will decide the future of this great nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the voting began for 91 constituencies for the Lok Sabha Elections 2019, the political parties started tweeting to voters asking them to come out in large numbers and vote. Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched an attack on the Modi government through his tweet. \u201cNo 2 Crore JOBS. No 15 Lakhs in Bank A\/C. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1345,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311194"}],"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=311194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311195,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311194\/revisions\/311195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}