{"id":326409,"date":"2020-09-15T05:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326409"},"modified":"2020-09-15T07:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T07:54:39","slug":"rahul-gandhi-slams-centre-over-migrant-labours-death-job-losses-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-slams-centre-over-migrant-labours-death-job-losses-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi slams Centre over migrant workers death, job losses during lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/excellent-press-conference-rahul-gandhi-mocks-pm-modis-first-press-meet\/rahil\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-312412\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312412 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rahil-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahil-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahil-461x420.jpg 461w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahil.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed Narendra Modi led central government over the deaths of migrant workers and job losses during the COVID-19 induced lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rahul attacked centre following a written reply by the Ministry of labour and employment on Monday, in which the ministry had said that the govt has no such data available on the number of migrant deaths or the job losses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;The Modi government does not know how many migrant workers died in lockdown and how many jobs were lost. If you did you not count, does that mean no death occurred?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">it&#8217;s sad that there was no effect on the government, the world saw their death,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">It&#8217;s only the Modi government which has no information about it,&#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\/rahul-gandhi-slams-centre-over-migrant-labours-death-job-losses-during-lockdown\/rahul-tweet-lb\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326410\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326410 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-lb-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-lb-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-lb-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-lb-324x160.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-lb-696x345.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-lb-848x420.jpg 848w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-tweet-lb.jpg 878w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a>Rahul had attacked Modi government on Monday and said that the unplanned lockdown is a product of a person\u2019s ego, which has caused the COVID-19 infection to spread across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed Narendra Modi led central government over the deaths of migrant workers and job losses during the COVID-19 induced lockdown. Rahul attacked centre following a written reply by the Ministry of labour and employment on Monday, in which the ministry had said that the govt has no such data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":312412,"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\/326409"}],"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=326409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326424,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326409\/revisions\/326424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}