{"id":315370,"date":"2019-10-01T07:17:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315370"},"modified":"2019-10-01T07:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T07:17:52","slug":"thank-you-jaishankar-for-covering-up-pms-incompetence-rahul-gandhi-on-trump-sarkar-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/thank-you-jaishankar-for-covering-up-pms-incompetence-rahul-gandhi-on-trump-sarkar-row\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thank you Jaishankar for covering up PM\u2019s incompetence\u2019: Rahul Gandhi on Trump Sarkar row"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday &#8220;thanked&#8221; External Affair Minister S Jaishankar for covering up for the prime minister\u2019s \u2018incompetence.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThank you Mr Jaishankar for covering up our PM\u2019s incompetence. His fawning endorsement caused serious problems with the Democrats for India. I hope it gets ironed out with your intervention. While you\u2019re at it, do teach him a little bit about diplomacy,\u201d Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul\u2019s comments came after Jaishankar clarified that PM&#8217;s remarks were &#8216;misinterpreted&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jaishankar said, \u201cI think, please, look very carefully at what the prime minister said. My recollection of what the prime minister said was that candidate Trump had used this (\u201cAb Ki Baar Trump Sarkaar\u201d). So PM is talking about the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said that PM Modi was pretty clear what he was talking about. He was saying, this is what you said as a candidate, which showed that you were trying to, (connect with India and its people even as a candidate).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday &#8220;thanked&#8221; External Affair Minister S Jaishankar for covering up for the prime minister\u2019s \u2018incompetence.\u2019 \u201cThank you Mr Jaishankar for covering up our PM\u2019s incompetence. His fawning endorsement caused serious problems with the Democrats for India. I hope it gets ironed out with your intervention. While you\u2019re at it, do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[11454,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315370"}],"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=315370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315371,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315370\/revisions\/315371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}