{"id":332398,"date":"2021-06-06T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T13:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=332398"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:10:28","slug":"rahul-gandhi-slams-government-fighting-for-blue-ticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-slams-government-fighting-for-blue-ticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi slams government for \u2018fighting for blue ticks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332399\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021_4largeimg_692636293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/06\/2021_4largeimg_692636293.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/06\/2021_4largeimg_692636293-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday criticised the Centre for allegedly \u2018fighting for blue ticks\u2019 on twitter, amid inadequacy of covid-19 vaccination in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress MP said that if one wanted a Covid-19 vaccine, they had to be self-reliant&#8217; atmanirbhar, \u00a0in a tweet,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Modi government is fighting for blue tick. If you want a Covid-19 vaccine, then be self-reliant! #Priorities &#8220;he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has removed &#8216;blue ticks&#8217; from the Twitter handles of Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and other leaders that indicates a verified account.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after this, the government sent the final ultimatum to twitter asking them to comply immediately with the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday criticised the Centre for allegedly \u2018fighting for blue ticks\u2019 on twitter, amid inadequacy of covid-19 vaccination in the country. The Congress MP said that if one wanted a Covid-19 vaccine, they had to be self-reliant&#8217; atmanirbhar, \u00a0in a tweet, &#8220;Modi government is fighting for blue tick. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":332399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,1961,36],"tags":[14336,14334,14335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332398"}],"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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332402,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332398\/revisions\/332402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/332399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}