{"id":357770,"date":"2020-06-16T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357770"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:34:07","slug":"raga-targets-govt-over-lockdown-fuel-price-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/raga-targets-govt-over-lockdown-fuel-price-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"RaGa targets Govt over lockdown, fuel price rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s meeting with Chief Ministers, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday criticised the four lockdowns enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus, saying that the wrong curve has been flattened. He shared a chart to prove his claim.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the former Congress chief also targeted the Government over increase in petrol and diesel prices, saying the middle class and the poor pay for the &#8220;gifts crony capitalists get&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Albert Einstein, Rahul said, this lockdown proves, &#8220;The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The graph posted by him shows the state of the economy and the number of fatalities due to coronavirus in India at the start of March. The live graph then depicted how the economy has been battered during the lockdown period while the number of deaths has increased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s meeting with Chief Ministers, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday criticised the four lockdowns enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus, saying that the wrong curve has been flattened. He shared a chart to prove his claim. At the same time, the former Congress chief also targeted the Government over increase in petrol and diesel prices, saying the middle class and the poor pay for the &#8220;gifts crony capitalists get&#8221;. Quoting Albert Einstein, Rahul said, this lockdown proves, &#8220;The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.&#8221; The graph posted by him shows [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357770","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=357770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}