{"id":311983,"date":"2019-05-04T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T06:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311983"},"modified":"2019-05-04T06:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T06:25:15","slug":"indian-army-is-not-pm-modis-personal-property-says-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-army-is-not-pm-modis-personal-property-says-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIndian Army is not PM Modi\u2019s personal property\u201d, says Rahul Gandhi"},"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-311984 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new-529x420.jpg 529w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday returned PM Modi\u2019s \u2018video game\u2019 jibe, saying the Indian Army was not his personal property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cArmy is not a personal property of PM Modi. Surgical Strikes are done by the Armed Forces. When Modi says Surgical strikes during Congress government were &#8220;video games&#8221;, he doesn&#8217;t insult Congress, he insults the army,\u201d Rahul said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul further said, \u201cTerrorism has to be dealt with sternly. We deal with it more sternly than Narendra Modi. We do it with strategy unlike Modi who does it in events.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul also took a swipe at the BJP on the release of Pakistan-based terrorist Masood Azhar back in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAction should be taken against Masood Azhar, but who sent him back to Pakistan? Did Congress send him to Pakistan? Who bowed down to terror and released him? Not the Congress, but it was the BJP Govt,\u201d Rahul said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul further said, \u201cI don&#8217;t see a strategic campaign by the BJP. I see a scared Prime Minister unable to face the onslaught of the opposition and who is absolutely convinced in his mind that he is trapped. It is a panicky campaign,\u201d adding to it he said, \u201cthe process is going on in Supreme Court and I apologized to Supreme Court as I felt I did mistake but I did not apologize to BJP or Modi. &#8216;Chowkidar Chor hai&#8217; is a reality and will remain our slogan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday returned PM Modi\u2019s \u2018video game\u2019 jibe, saying the Indian Army was not his personal property. \u201cArmy is not a personal property of PM Modi. Surgical Strikes are done by the Armed Forces. When Modi says Surgical strikes during Congress government were &#8220;video games&#8221;, he doesn&#8217;t insult Congress, he insults [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311983"}],"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=311983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311987,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311983\/revisions\/311987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}