{"id":328450,"date":"2020-11-08T16:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328450"},"modified":"2020-11-08T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T16:45:27","slug":"rahul-gandhi-slams-pm-modi-says-demonetisation-helped-few-crony-capitalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-slams-pm-modi-says-demonetisation-helped-few-crony-capitalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi slams PM Modi, says demonetisation helped few crony capitalists"},"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-blames-bjp-for-jem-chief-masood-azhars-release\/rahul-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310274\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310274 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rahul-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul-527x420.jpg 527w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/rahul.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/a>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday over issues faced by people due to demonetisation and said that it was a thoughtful move by PM to help his &#8216;crony capitalist friends&#8217;.<\/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 shared a video of people sharing their views on demonetisation and said, &#8220;Modi ji, listen to the public on the anniversary of demonetisation!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier, Rahul in a tweet said, &#8220;Demonetisation was a thoughtful move of the PM to forgive loans amounting to crores of &#8216;Modi-Mitra&#8217; capitalists with the money of the general public. Do not be mistaken &#8211; it was not a mistake, it was done intentionally. Raise your voice on four years of this national tragedy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On November 8, 2016, PM Modi had announced the demonetisation of all old series of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 banknotes and issued a new series of Rs 500 and Rs 2000 banknotes in exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday over issues faced by people due to demonetisation and said that it was a thoughtful move by PM to help his &#8216;crony capitalist friends&#8217;. Taking to the microblogging site, Rahul shared a video of people sharing their views on demonetisation and said, &#8220;Modi ji, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":310274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3771,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328450"}],"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=328450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328451,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328450\/revisions\/328451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}