{"id":394101,"date":"2021-01-08T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T04:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394101"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T05:04:03","slug":"country-at-crossroads-sonia-gandi-slams-govt-on-fuel-price-hike-farmer-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/country-at-crossroads-sonia-gandi-slams-govt-on-fuel-price-hike-farmer-stir\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Country at crossroads\u2019: Sonia Gandi slams govt on fuel price hike, farmer stir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is at a crossroads for the first time in its history and an \u201cautocratic\u201d and \u201cinsensitive\u201d government is bent on imposing hardships on the poor, farmers and the middle class, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Thursday attacking the BJP government over the increase in petrol prices and the continuing farmers\u2019 agitation.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi demanded that the government slash the rates of excise duty on petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country is standing at the crossroads today for the first time in the history of independent India. On one hand, the country\u2019s annadata (farmers) had been staying put at the borders of Delhi for the last 44 days in support of their legitimate demands, while the country\u2019s autocratic, insensitive and ruthless BJP government is busy breaking the back of the poor, farmers and middle class,\u201d Gandhi said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is at a crossroads for the first time in its history and an \u201cautocratic\u201d and \u201cinsensitive\u201d government is bent on imposing hardships on the poor, farmers and the middle class, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Thursday attacking the BJP government over the increase in petrol prices and the continuing farmers\u2019 agitation. Gandhi demanded that the government slash the rates of excise duty on petrol and diesel. \u201cThe country is standing at the crossroads today for the first time in the history of independent India. On one hand, the country\u2019s annadata (farmers) had been staying put at the borders of [&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-394101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394101","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=394101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}