{"id":326678,"date":"2020-09-21T09:18:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T09:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326678"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T09:18:38","slug":"muting-of-democratic-india-continues-rahul-gandhi-over-suspension-of-rajya-sabha-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/muting-of-democratic-india-continues-rahul-gandhi-over-suspension-of-rajya-sabha-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Muting of democratic India continues\u2019: Rahul Gandhi over suspension of Rajya Sabha MPs"},"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-310205 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg 474w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the Narendra Modi government over suspension of eight Rajya Sabha MPs, saying &#8216;muting of democratic India&#8217; continues by initially silencing and later suspending the parliamentarians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMuting Of Democratic India\u2019 continues: by initially silencing and later, suspending MPs in the Parliament &amp; turning a blind eye to farmers\u2019 concerns on the black agriculture laws,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis \u2018omniscient\u2019 Govt\u2019s endless arrogance has brought economic disaster for the entire country,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His comments came after eight Opposition MPs were suspended for creating ruckus in the House on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trinamool Congress\u2019 Derek O\u2019Brien, TMC\u2019s Dola Sen, Sanjay Singh of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Congress leaders Rajeev Satav, Ripun Bora and Syed Nasir Hussain and KK Ragesh and Elamaram Kareem of the CPI(M) were among those who were suspended from the house.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the Narendra Modi government over suspension of eight Rajya Sabha MPs, saying &#8216;muting of democratic India&#8217; continues by initially silencing and later suspending the parliamentarians. \u201cMuting Of Democratic India\u2019 continues: by initially silencing and later, suspending MPs in the Parliament &amp; turning a blind eye to farmers\u2019 concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310205,"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\/326678"}],"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=326678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326681,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326678\/revisions\/326681"}],"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=326678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}