{"id":342367,"date":"2023-03-06T07:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=342367"},"modified":"2023-03-06T07:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:56:27","slug":"rahul-gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-india-in-foreign-land-anurag-thakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-india-in-foreign-land-anurag-thakur\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Rahul Gandhi taken contract to defame India in foreign land: Anurag Thakur<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur-696x428.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur-1068x657.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur-682x420.jpg 682w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/Rahul-Gandhi-taken-contract-to-defame-India-in-foreign-land-Anurag-Thakur.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi:\u00a0 Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of defaming the country in a foreign land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that he has taken a contract to defame India abroad, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the media this morning, minister Thakur said, &#8220;Be it among his foreign friends, agencies or foreign land &#8211; he&#8217;s leaving no stone unturned to defame India. To hide his failures, he has taken a contract to defame India from foreign land in a planned manner&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further said, &#8220;His language, thoughts &amp; working style are suspicious. He has done it again &amp; again&#8230;when jawans were martyred, he said, a few people were killed in a car bomb explosion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other BJP leaders also slammed Gandhi over the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Union Minister Arjun Munda said that when Indian citizens go abroad, they feel proud to be Indians. But when opposition party leaders publicise &amp; give statements to hurt India&#8217;s respect, it shows that they are not bothered about the country&#8217;s respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u00a0 Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of defaming the country in a foreign land. It appears that he has taken a contract to defame India abroad, he added. Speaking to the media this morning, minister Thakur said, &#8220;Be it among his foreign friends, agencies or foreign land &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":342368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15570,16243,16244,15620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342367"}],"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=342367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342369,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342367\/revisions\/342369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/342368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}