{"id":192,"date":"2019-01-04T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:57:32","slug":"arun-jaitelys-take-down-on-rahul-gandhi-grandson-of-an-emergency-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/arun-jaitelys-take-down-on-rahul-gandhi-grandson-of-an-emergency-holder\/","title":{"rendered":"Arun Jaitely\u2019s take down on Rahul Gandhi \u2013\u201cgrandson of an emergency holder\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI:<\/strong> Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s comment that Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s New Year interview was &#8220;planned&#8221; and done by a &#8220;influenced journalist&#8221; drew a sharp reply from Union Minister Arun Jaitley, who took a dig into the matter by calling him \u201cgrandon of an emergency dictator\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In tweets this morning, Arun Jaitley said: &#8220;The Grandson of the Emergency dictator&#8217; displays his real DNA &#8211; attacks and intimidates an independent editor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While attacking PM Modi over the Rafale jet deal, Rahul Gandhi had referred to his exclusive interview to ANI editor Smita Prakash on January 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Modi) does not even have the real guts to come and sit in front of you all. And I am coming here, you can ask me any question. You saw the prime minister&#8217;s interview yesterday&#8230;matlab biased journalist, she was asking questions and was even giving answers.&#8221;what kind of journalism it was, Rahul added!<\/p>\n<p>The Congress president had also referred to the interview during the Rafale debate in the parliament earlier: &#8220;The nation is asking why the Prime Minister can speak for one-and-a-half hour in a staged interview and not answer fundamental questions on Rafale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smita Prakash called Mr Gandhi&#8217;s comments a &#8220;cheap shot&#8221; in a tweet.<br \/>\nThe National Union of Journalists has also protested Mr Gandhi&#8217;s comments on the ANI editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s comment that Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s New Year interview was &#8220;planned&#8221; and done by a &#8220;influenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29,24],"tags":[84,93,35,33],"result":[],"election_2018":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-national-issues","category-politician","tag-arun-jaitley","tag-narender-modi","tag-rafale-deal","tag-rahul-gandhi-as-pm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"result","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/result?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"election_2018","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election_2018?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}