{"id":325726,"date":"2020-08-29T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325726"},"modified":"2020-08-29T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T08:55:09","slug":"rahul-gandhi-attacks-modi-government-says-bjp-has-hold-over-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-attacks-modi-government-says-bjp-has-hold-over-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi attacks Modi government, says BJP has hold over WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-attacks-modi-government-on-missing-rafale-files\/rahul-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310205\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310205 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a>Rahul Gandhi on Saturday again attacked the Modi government and alleged that BJP has a hold over WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">While quoting a media report, Rahul tweeted, &#8220;America&#8217;s Time magazine exposes WhatsApp-BJP nexus: Used by 40 Cr Indians, WhatsApp also wants to be used for making payments for which Modi Govt&#8217;s approval is needed. Thus, BJP has a hold over WhatsApp.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier on August 16, Rahul had blamed BJP for controlling Facebook and WhatsApp in India. In his tweet, he had said, &#8220;BJP &amp; RSS control Facebook &amp; Whatsapp in India. They spread fake news and hatred through it and use it to influence the electorate. Finally, the American media has come out with the truth about Facebook.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi on Saturday again attacked the Modi government and alleged that BJP has a hold over WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook Inc. While quoting a media report, Rahul tweeted, &#8220;America&#8217;s Time magazine exposes WhatsApp-BJP nexus: Used by 40 Cr Indians, WhatsApp also wants to be used for making payments for which Modi Govt&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":310205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,600,579,2266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325726"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325727,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325726\/revisions\/325727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}