{"id":177596,"date":"2021-11-24T01:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=177596"},"modified":"2021-11-24T01:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:19:35","slug":"govt-diverting-attention-from-price-rise-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/govt-diverting-attention-from-price-rise-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt diverting attention from price rise: Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 23 Nov:<\/strong> The Congress on Tuesday accused the BJP government of trying to divert the country&#8217;s attention from real problems like price rise faced by the common people to non-issues of caste and religion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Party leader Rahul Gandhi raised the issue of the increase in GST on certain goods and claimed that the reality of &#8216;achhe din&#8217;, the BJP&#8217;s poll slogan, is being continuously &#8220;exposed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera alleged that the prices of commodities of daily use are skyrocketing, due to which the masses are suffering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It appears as though there is Section 144 in the kitchen that you cannot keep more than four tomatoes or onions,&#8221; he said, referring to the hike in prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Why is it that the government keeps trying to distract the attention of the people from these issues to non-issues? We would not allow the collective attention of the country<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">to be hijacked by this government by creating non-issues by hiding their failures,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khera also alleged that the country was paying the price of the prime minister&#8217;s mistakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The 7.5 years of Mr Modi have been a long chain of mistakes, some acknowledged and some realized and some not. Why should the country pay a price for this series of these mistakes of Mr Modi,&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress leader said that, as a responsible opposition, they will not allow the attention of the country to be distracted and will keep bringing the narrative back on the everyday problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the government has realized some of its mistakes after the results of the recently-concluded by-elections and &#8220;will realize them more in the next round of assembly elections.&#8221; (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 23 Nov: The Congress on Tuesday accused the BJP government of trying to divert the country&#8217;s attention from real problems like price rise faced by the common people to non-issues of caste and religion. Party leader Rahul Gandhi raised the issue of the increase in GST on certain goods and claimed that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}