{"id":325645,"date":"2020-08-26T07:25:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325645"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:25:54","slug":"rbi-has-now-confirmed-what-i-have-been-warning-for-months-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rbi-has-now-confirmed-what-i-have-been-warning-for-months-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"RBI has now confirmed what I have been warning for months: 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\" \/>Targetting the government over the state of the economy, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said, \u201cdistractions through media won\u2019t help the poor\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, &#8220;the threat about which he had been warning for months has now been confirmed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as well&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRBI has now confirmed what I have been warning for months. Govt needs to: Spend more, not lend more. Give money to the poor, not tax cuts to industrialists. Restart economy by consumption. Distractions through media won&#8217;t help the poor or make the economic disaster disappear,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul has been attacking the government over a number of issues, including the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has badly affected\u00a0the\u00a0national economy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Targetting the government over the state of the economy, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said, \u201cdistractions through media won\u2019t help the poor\u201d. He further said, &#8220;the threat about which he had been warning for months has now been confirmed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as well&#8221;. \u201cRBI has now confirmed what I [&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\/325645"}],"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=325645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325646,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325645\/revisions\/325646"}],"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=325645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}