{"id":357744,"date":"2020-06-16T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357744"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:17:40","slug":"congress-glare-on-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/congress-glare-on-fuel-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress glare on fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The self-imposed restraint that saw the Congress offering constructive suggestions to the government to handle the pandemic has now given way to a social media campaign under the hashtag \u201cSharm karo looteri sarkar\u201d, which translates to \u201cHave some shame, government of looters\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Rahul Gandhi led the campaign on Monday. Pointing to the continual rise in prices of petrol and diesel \u2014 which rose for a ninth straight day \u2014 although international crude prices are low, Rahul tweeted: \u201cMiddle class and the poor pay for the gifts the crony capitalists get.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Congress has been demanding that the benefits of low crude prices in the international market be passed on to the consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self-imposed restraint that saw the Congress offering constructive suggestions to the government to handle the pandemic has now given way to a social media campaign under the hashtag \u201cSharm karo looteri sarkar\u201d, which translates to \u201cHave some shame, government of looters\u201d. Rahul Gandhi led the campaign on Monday. Pointing to the continual rise in prices of petrol and diesel \u2014 which rose for a ninth straight day \u2014 although international crude prices are low, Rahul tweeted: \u201cMiddle class and the poor pay for the gifts the crony capitalists get.\u201d The Congress has been demanding that the benefits of low [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357744","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=357744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}