{"id":262730,"date":"2019-03-06T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T06:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=262730"},"modified":"2019-03-06T07:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:06:48","slug":"pm-modi-defends-lack-of-rafale-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pm-modi-defends-lack-of-rafale-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi defends \u2018lack of Rafale\u2019 remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the Opposition to \u201cuse common sense\u201d and chided it for questioning his statement that if India had had Rafale fighters during the current engagements with Pakistan, \u201cthe results would have been different\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared to suggest his comment had been about the February 27 dogfight between Indian and Pakistani air force jets rather than India\u2019s February 26 air strikes on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Balakot, Pakistan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that had the Rafale been acquired in time, it would have made a difference, but they say Modi is questioning our air force strikes,\u201d he told a gathering here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the Opposition to \u201cuse common sense\u201d and chided it for questioning his statement that if India had had Rafale fighters during the current engagements with Pakistan, \u201cthe results would have been different\u201d. He appeared to suggest his comment had been about the February 27 dogfight between Indian and Pakistani air force jets rather than India\u2019s February 26 air strikes on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Balakot, Pakistan. \u201cI said that had the Rafale been acquired in time, it would have made a difference, but they say Modi is questioning our air force strikes,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}