{"id":272024,"date":"2019-04-30T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272024"},"modified":"2019-04-30T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:06:09","slug":"rafale-verdict-rahul-gandhi-expresses-regret-again-in-sc-over-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rafale-verdict-rahul-gandhi-expresses-regret-again-in-sc-over-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafale verdict: Rahul Gandhi expresses \u201cregret\u201d again in SC over remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Monday, expressed regret again for \u201cincorrectly\u201d attributing his \u2018chowkidar chor hai\u2019 remark to the Supreme Court and accused BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi of trying to drag the court into a political controversy for \u201cpersonal gains and political mileage\u201d by moving the contempt petition against him. <\/p>\n<p>Seeking dismissal of the contempt petition over his remark against the Prime Minister in his response to the Rafale verdict, Gandhi filed a fresh affidavit reiterating that his statement was made in the \u201cheat of political campaigning\u201d and there was not the \u201cslightest intention to insinuate\u201d anything regarding the Supreme Court proceedings in any manner. The statement was made in Hindi in a \u201crhetorical flourish\u201d in the heat of the moment, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Monday, expressed regret again for \u201cincorrectly\u201d attributing his \u2018chowkidar chor hai\u2019 remark to the Supreme Court and accused BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi of trying to drag the court into a political controversy for \u201cpersonal gains and political mileage\u201d by moving the contempt petition against him. Seeking dismissal of the contempt petition over his remark against the Prime Minister in his response to the Rafale verdict, Gandhi filed a fresh affidavit reiterating that his statement was made in the \u201cheat of political campaigning\u201d and there was not the \u201cslightest intention to insinuate\u201d anything regarding the Supreme [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272024","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=272024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}