{"id":324524,"date":"2020-07-08T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324524"},"modified":"2020-07-08T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T08:47:12","slug":"was-ridiculed-for-warning-country-about-truth-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/was-ridiculed-for-warning-country-about-truth-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Was ridiculed for warning country about truth: 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=\"size-full wp-image-311984 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new.jpg 690w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Rahul-new-529x420.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that large companies are under severe stress in India and added that he was ridiculed for warning the country about the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSmall &amp; medium enterprises stand destroyed. Large companies are under severe stress. Banks are in distress,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI stated months ago that an economic tsunami was coming and was ridiculed by BJP and the Media for warning the country about the truth,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul also shared a screenshot of an article which said corporate stress could increase further by Rs 1.68 lakh crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For the past few weeks, the former Congress President has been attacking the Modi-led BJP government. On Tuesday, Rahul said, \u201cIndia\u2019s economic mismanagement is a tragedy that is going to destroy millions of families. It will no longer be accepted silently.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He attached a report with his tweet that claimed that India\u2019s economic growth is likely to contract 4.5 per cent in 2020-21 due to Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that large companies are under severe stress in India and added that he was ridiculed for warning the country about the truth. \u201cSmall &amp; medium enterprises stand destroyed. Large companies are under severe stress. Banks are in distress,\u201d Rahul tweeted. \u201cI stated months ago that an economic tsunami [&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\/324524"}],"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=324524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324525,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324524\/revisions\/324525"}],"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=324524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}