{"id":332504,"date":"2021-06-14T06:36:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=332504"},"modified":"2021-06-14T06:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:14:03","slug":"govt-should-practise-in-india-what-it-preaches-to-the-world-chidambaram-taunts-on-pms-g7-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/govt-should-practise-in-india-what-it-preaches-to-the-world-chidambaram-taunts-on-pms-g7-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Govt should practise in India what it preaches to the world’: Chidambaram taunts on PM\u2019s G7 speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on democracy and freedom of thought at a G7 summit. Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Monday \u201cthe government should practise in India what it preaches to the world, said on Monday<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Modi on Sunday said\u00a0India is a natural ally for the G7 and its partners in defending democracy, freedom of thought and liberty from a host of threats stemming from authoritarianism, terrorism, violent extremism and economic coercion.<\/p>\n

Former Finance minister, P. Chidambaram tweeted in reply. \u201cPM Modi\u2019s speech at the G7 Outreach meeting is inspiring as well as ironic. The Modi government should practise in India what it preaches to the world,\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said in his tweet that it was \u201csad\u201d the prime minister was the only guest not physically present at the outreach meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsk yourself why? Because India is an outlier as far as the fight against Covid 19 is concerned. We are the most infected and least vaccinated country (as a proportion of the population),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The prime minister made a virtual address at the session of \u00a0G7 summit held in Cornwall in Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on democracy and freedom of thought at a G7 summit. Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Monday \u201cthe government should practise in India what it preaches to the world, said on Monday Prime Minister Modi on Sunday said\u00a0India is a natural ally for the G7 and its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":332508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,1961,36],"tags":[14368,1573,1445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332504"}],"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=332504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332511,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332504\/revisions\/332511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/332508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}