{"id":326381,"date":"2020-09-14T05:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326381"},"modified":"2020-09-14T05:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:38:46","slug":"unplanned-lockdown-product-of-a-persons-ego-causing-coronavirus-to-spread-across-country-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/unplanned-lockdown-product-of-a-persons-ego-causing-coronavirus-to-spread-across-country-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplanned lockdown product of a person&#8217;s ego, causing coronavirus to spread across country: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/gst-means-economic-apocalypse-it-is-attack-on-indias-poor-rahul-gandhi\/rahul-gst\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326069\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326069 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rahul-gst-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-gst-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-gst.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a>Attacking Modi government over the lockdown due to COVID-19, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the unplanned lockdown is a product of a person&#8217;s ego, which has caused the COVID-19 infection to spread across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Taking to the microblogging site, Rahul in a tweet said, &#8220;Coronavirus infection figures will cross 50 lakhs this week with 10 million active cases. The unplanned lockdown is a product of a person&#8217;s ego causing the coronavirus to spread across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Modi government asked people to be self-sufficient &#8216;atmanirbhar&#8217; i.e. save your own life yourself because PM is busy with peacocks,&#8221; Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/unplanned-lockdown-product-of-a-persons-ego-causing-coronavirus-to-spread-across-country-rahul-gandhi\/rahul-tweet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326382\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326382 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-757x420.jpg 757w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, the COVID-19 tally in the country now stands at 48,46,427, while the death toll rose to 79,722.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacking Modi government over the lockdown due to COVID-19, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the unplanned lockdown is a product of a person&#8217;s ego, which has caused the COVID-19 infection to spread across the country. Taking to the microblogging site, Rahul in a tweet said, &#8220;Coronavirus infection figures will cross 50 lakhs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":326069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[12809,316,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326381"}],"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=326381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326385,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326381\/revisions\/326385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}