{"id":317824,"date":"2019-12-14T10:56:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317824"},"modified":"2019-12-14T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T11:15:44","slug":"i-am-not-rahul-savarkar-will-not-apologise-for-speaking-truth-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/i-am-not-rahul-savarkar-will-not-apologise-for-speaking-truth-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am not Rahul Savarkar\u2019, will not apologise for speaking truth: 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-317825 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rahul-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/rahul-2.jpg 697w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/rahul-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/rahul-2-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched an attack on the BJP government saying he will not apologise for his \u2018rape in India\u2019 remark that rocked Parliament on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe BJP asked me to apologize. My name is not Rahul Savarkar, I am Rahul Gandhi. I will never apologize for speaking the truth and nor will any Congress worker will do so. It is PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah who has to apologise to the country for destroying India&#8217;s economy,\u201d Rahul said at the Ramlila ground in Delhi, where the Congress held a &#8220;Bharat Bachao&#8221; rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress Interim president Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were among the other senior leaders who spoke at the Delhi rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Stepping up the attack on PM Modi, Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi said, \u201cthere\u2019s an atmosphere of \u2018andher nagri, chaupat raja\u2019, everyone is asking whatever happened to \u2018sabka saath sabka vishwaas\u2019. What happened to the economy, where are the jobs?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She further said, \u201cThere comes a time in the life of any person or society or country when you have to decide which side you\u2019re on, today is one such day. We have to fight hard to save the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhen I see the condition of my farmer brothers, I feel sorry. Their problems have increased so much that it has become difficult for them to survive,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Taking a swipe at PM Modi and Amit Shah, Sonia said, \u201cPublic money is not safe even in banks. The common man cannot withdraw his own money from banks. Modi-Shah call it \u2018achhe din\u2019,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cModi-Shah do not care that CAB will destroy the soul of India as can be seen happening in Northeast India,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched an attack on the BJP government saying he will not apologise for his \u2018rape in India\u2019 remark that rocked Parliament on Friday. \u201cThe BJP asked me to apologize. My name is not Rahul Savarkar, I am Rahul Gandhi. I will never apologize for speaking the truth and nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":317825,"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\/317824"}],"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=317824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317826,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317824\/revisions\/317826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}