{"id":479112,"date":"2022-03-26T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=479112"},"modified":"2022-03-26T11:36:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:06:55","slug":"fuel-price-hike-fm-invokes-nehru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-price-hike-fm-invokes-nehru\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price hike: FM \u2018invokes\u2019 Nehru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  Under attack from the opposition over increase in fuel prices, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman \u2018invoked\u2019 the country\u2019s first prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru to justify the hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman read Nehru\u2019s speech from the 1950s in Hindi, where the former prime minister had blamed the Korean War for inflation in the country. She argued that if Nehru could blame war in Korea for the rise in prices in the 1950s, when India was not as well connected with the world as now, why would the Russia-Ukraine war not impact prices today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Under attack from the opposition over increase in fuel prices, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman \u2018invoked\u2019 the country\u2019s first prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru to justify the hikes. Sitharaman read Nehru\u2019s speech from the 1950s in Hindi, where the former prime minister had blamed the Korean War for inflation in the country. She argued that if Nehru could blame war in Korea for the rise in prices in the 1950s, when India was not as well connected with the world as now, why would the Russia-Ukraine war not impact prices today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479112","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}