{"id":713,"date":"2019-03-11T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/?p=713"},"modified":"2019-03-11T06:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:42:19","slug":"congress-leader-delivered-a-hugely-controversial-statement-called-pm-modi-like-terrorist-in-the-presence-of-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/congress-leader-delivered-a-hugely-controversial-statement-called-pm-modi-like-terrorist-in-the-presence-of-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Leader delivered a hugely controversial statement called PM Modi like &#8220;Terrorist&#8221;, in the presence of Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HYDERABAD:<\/strong> A Congress leader in Telangana delivered a hugely controversial statement on Saturday, attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the presence of party chief Rahul Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every person is scared of which bomb Modi will drop at which minute. He is appearing like a terrorist. Instead of loving his people, he is scaring them. This is not a characteristic of a Prime Minister,&#8221; Vijayashanti, an actress-turned-politician, said, referring to decisions like demonetisation. Rahul Gandhi was on the stage when Vijayashanti made the remarks at a rally in Shamshabad.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest comment to join a series of shockers in the acrimonious campaign for next month&#8217;s national election. Vijayashanti&#8217;s comment was a reminder to many critics of the row triggered by veteran Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;neech&#8221; to target PM Modi in 2017 before the Gujarat elections. The 77-year-old leader was rebuked by Mr Gandhi and suspended from the Congress for eight months.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that the upcoming Lok Sabha elections were essentially a battle between PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi at the rally, Vijayashanti also claimed the Congress chief was &#8220;fighting for the survival of democracy&#8221;, while the Prime Minister has &#8220;ruled like a dictator&#8221; during his tenure in a manner that has killed democracy and troubled the people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wants to rule like that in the next five years, but people will not give him that opportunity,&#8221; the former parliamentarian said in Telugu.<\/p>\n<p>On all fronts like demonetisation, the Goods and Services Tax, reclaiming black money and the Pulwama terror attack, he was &#8221;scaring&#8221; people, Vijayashanti said.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that a vote for the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti or TRS would go to BJP as &#8220;Modi and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao are one.&#8221; Chief Minister Rao is extending support to the BJP as PM Modi had helped him win last year&#8217;s assembly elections in Telangana, she claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A Congress leader in Telangana delivered a hugely controversial statement on Saturday, attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[450,443,28,449],"result":[],"election_2018":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-actress-vijayashanti","tag-lok-sabha-elections","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-telangana"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"result","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/result?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"election_2018","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election_2018?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}