{"id":274472,"date":"2019-05-15T06:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T06:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274472"},"modified":"2019-05-15T06:45:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T06:45:49","slug":"congress-seizes-on-rafale-truth-from-nitin-gadkari-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/congress-seizes-on-rafale-truth-from-nitin-gadkari-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress seizes on Rafale \u2018truth\u2019 from Nitin Gadkari interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Tuesday said Union minister Nitin Gadkari had finally revealed why the number of Rafale jets bought from France had been reduced from 126 to 36, alleging that the Narendra Modi government overruled national security to save money. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, truth is out!\u201d party communications chief Randeep Surjewala tweeted. \u201c\u2018National Security\u2019 stumped by a pseudo nationalist Modi Govt. No. of Rafale aircrafts reduced from 126 to 36 for saving money, overruling Air Force &amp; nation\u2019s security!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Gadkari had, in a recent interview to journalist Karan Thapar, said the government\u2019s \u201cfinancial availability\u201d dictated the decision to bring down the number of Rafale jets from the 126 negotiated by the UPA government to the current 36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Tuesday said Union minister Nitin Gadkari had finally revealed why the number of Rafale jets bought from France had been reduced from 126 to 36, alleging that the Narendra Modi government overruled national security to save money. \u201cFinally, truth is out!\u201d party communications chief Randeep Surjewala tweeted. \u201c\u2018National Security\u2019 stumped by a pseudo nationalist Modi Govt. No. of Rafale aircrafts reduced from 126 to 36 for saving money, overruling Air Force &amp; nation\u2019s security!\u201d Gadkari had, in a recent interview to journalist Karan Thapar, said the government\u2019s \u201cfinancial availability\u201d dictated the decision to bring down the number [&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-274472","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\/274472","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=274472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}