{"id":404510,"date":"2021-03-12T08:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404510"},"modified":"2021-03-12T08:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T03:21:27","slug":"congress-seeks-judicial-inquiry-into-charges-against-nitin-gadkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/congress-seeks-judicial-inquiry-into-charges-against-nitin-gadkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress seeks judicial inquiry into charges against Nitin Gadkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into the allegation that a Swedish firm gave a luxury bus to a company linked to union minister Nitin Gadkari, who has denied the charge as &#8220;malicious, fabricated and baseless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said the reports of the bus contract scam are &#8220;indeed very disturbing&#8221;. She said the prime minister who used to speak about probity in public life is today &#8220;forced to be silent. He does not even want to talk about this&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We demand a judicial inquiry into this. We demand that the Government of India take this into cognisance and issue a statement clarifying its position,&#8221; she told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Thursday demanded a judicial inquiry into the allegation that a Swedish firm gave a luxury bus to a company linked to union minister Nitin Gadkari, who has denied the charge as &#8220;malicious, fabricated and baseless&#8221;. Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said the reports of the bus contract scam are &#8220;indeed very disturbing&#8221;. She said the prime minister who used to speak about probity in public life is today &#8220;forced to be silent. He does not even want to talk about this&#8221;. &#8220;We demand a judicial inquiry into this. We demand that the Government of India take this into [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404510","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=404510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}