{"id":327997,"date":"2020-10-27T05:58:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327997"},"modified":"2020-10-27T05:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:58:34","slug":"priyanka-gandhi-attacks-up-government-over-rising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/priyanka-gandhi-attacks-up-government-over-rising-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Gandhi attacks UP government over &#8216;rising prices&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/priyanka-gandhi-leaves-for-unnao-to-meet-rape-victim-family\/priyanka-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-317561\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-317561 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/priyanka-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/priyanka-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/priyanka-540x420.jpg 540w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/priyanka.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a>Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday took a dig at Uttar Pradesh government over inflation and condition of traders, shopkeepers, street vendors in the state.<\/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, Priyanka in a tweet said, &#8220;In Uttar Pradesh, during the festive season, inflation has wreaked havoc on common people. Vegetable prices are skyrocketing. Businesses are already shut. But the BJP government, which spent crores of rupees in false propaganda, is silent on the public&#8217;s problems.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Today, the PM will talk to some street vendors of UP. In the entire lockdown, street vendors and small shopkeepers were hit hard. It became difficult to run home, livelihood was ruined.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The street vendors, shopkeepers, small traders today need a special assistance package, not a loan,&#8221; Priyanka added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Priyanka along with her tweet tagged the prices of various vegetables in Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday took a dig at Uttar Pradesh government over inflation and condition of traders, shopkeepers, street vendors in the state. Taking to the microblogging site, Priyanka in a tweet said, &#8220;In Uttar Pradesh, during the festive season, inflation has wreaked havoc on common people. Vegetable prices are skyrocketing. Businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":317561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[5735,4279,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327997"}],"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=327997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327998,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327997\/revisions\/327998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}