{"id":508316,"date":"2022-07-23T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=508316"},"modified":"2022-07-23T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T06:44:49","slug":"rahul-slams-govt-for-not-giving-rail-ticket-concessions-to-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rahul-slams-govt-for-not-giving-rail-ticket-concessions-to-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul slams Govt for not giving rail ticket concessions to the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday lashed out at the BJP-led Centre for not granting rail ticket concessions to the elderly and alleged that while it can even reach for the stars for its &#8220;friends&#8221;, it will make the common people yearn for every penny.<\/p>\n<p>He also listed out the money spent by the government on advertisements, a new aeroplane and tax concession to &#8220;friends&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Advertising expenses: Rs 911 crore. New plane: Rs 8,400 crore. Tax exemption for capitalist friends: Rs 1,45,000 crore per year. But the government does not have Rs 1,500 crore to give concessions in rail tickets to the elderly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday lashed out at the BJP-led Centre for not granting rail ticket concessions to the elderly and alleged that while it can even reach for the stars for its &#8220;friends&#8221;, it will make the common people yearn for every penny. He also listed out the money spent by the government on advertisements, a new aeroplane and tax concession to &#8220;friends&#8221;. &#8220;Advertising expenses: Rs 911 crore. New plane: Rs 8,400 crore. Tax exemption for capitalist friends: Rs 1,45,000 crore per year. But the government does not have Rs 1,500 crore to give concessions in rail [&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":[130,263,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508316","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=508316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}