{"id":270701,"date":"2019-04-23T06:34:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T06:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=270701"},"modified":"2019-04-23T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T06:42:06","slug":"rahul-expresses-regret-to-supreme-court-on-rafale-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rahul-expresses-regret-to-supreme-court-on-rafale-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul expresses regret to Supreme Court on Rafale comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi on Monday expressed \u201cregret\u201d to the Supreme Court that in the heat of political campaigning he had juxtaposed the Congress slogan \u201cchowkidar chor hai\u201d while citing the court\u2019s recent ruling on the Rafale review petition.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul reaffirmed the allegation that the Rafale deal was a \u201ctainted transaction\u201d that merited a joint parliamentary committee probe. He also furnished copies of media reports to contend that Modi had incorrectly portrayed a previous apex court ruling as a \u201cclean chit\u201d to him on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>BJP parliamentarian Meenakshi Lekhi had moved a contempt plea accusing the Congress president of deliberately misrepresenting the court\u2019s ruling to claim it had held Prime Minister Narendra Modi a \u201cchor\u201d (thief) in the aircraft deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Gandhi on Monday expressed \u201cregret\u201d to the Supreme Court that in the heat of political campaigning he had juxtaposed the Congress slogan \u201cchowkidar chor hai\u201d while citing the court\u2019s recent ruling on the Rafale review petition. Rahul reaffirmed the allegation that the Rafale deal was a \u201ctainted transaction\u201d that merited a joint parliamentary committee probe. He also furnished copies of media reports to contend that Modi had incorrectly portrayed a previous apex court ruling as a \u201cclean chit\u201d to him on the deal. BJP parliamentarian Meenakshi Lekhi had moved a contempt plea accusing the Congress president of deliberately misrepresenting [&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-270701","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\/270701","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=270701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}