{"id":315281,"date":"2019-09-27T07:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315281"},"modified":"2019-09-27T07:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:07:31","slug":"sharad-pawar-latest-opposition-leader-targeted-by-vindictive-government-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sharad-pawar-latest-opposition-leader-targeted-by-vindictive-government-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharad Pawar, latest opposition leader targeted by vindictive government: Rahul Gandhi"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-310336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar.jpg 622w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday criticised the centre for targeting National Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, a month before elections in Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSharad Pawar Ji is the latest Opposition leader to be targeted by a vindictive Government. The timing of this action, a month before elections in Maharashtra, reeks of political opportunism,\u201d Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pawar\u00a0will appear before the Enforcement Directorate\u00a0(ED) on Friday afternoon in connection with a scam at the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">NCP chief spokesperson Nawab Malik said, \u201cHonourable Sharad Pawar will visit ED office today. A large number of workers will be present in his support. However, the police have started detaining workers since last night. We are law-abiding people. This suppression is not right. Condemnation!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">NCP workers had staged protests in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra when Pawar was named in a money laundering case earlier this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police have imposed prohibitory orders outside the ED\u2019s office ahead of Pawar&#8217;s visit to the agency office today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday criticised the centre for targeting National Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, a month before elections in Maharashtra. \u201cSharad Pawar Ji is the latest Opposition leader to be targeted by a vindictive Government. The timing of this action, a month before elections in Maharashtra, reeks of political opportunism,\u201d Rahul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[1467,71,1892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315281"}],"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=315281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315282,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315281\/revisions\/315282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}