{"id":231842,"date":"2023-12-31T00:09:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=231842"},"modified":"2023-12-31T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T18:39:58","slug":"do-people-want-easy-rail-travel-or-picture-with-shahenshahs-statue-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/do-people-want-easy-rail-travel-or-picture-with-shahenshahs-statue-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Do people want easy rail travel or picture with &#8216;shahenshah&#8217;s&#8217; statue: Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 30 Dec:<\/strong> Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at the government over setting up of selfie booths at railway stations with life-size cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking whether people want easy rail travel or a picture with the &#8220;shahenshah&#8217;s statue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi said, &#8220;Fares for every class of &#8216;Garibo Ki Sawaari&#8217;, Indian Railways have been increased. Even the fare concession given to the elderly was withdrawn. Platform ticket prices were increased and the door for privatisation was opened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, &#8220;Was this money, which is being squeezed out of the public&#8217;s hard-earned money, for making a selfie stand? What do the people of India want? Cheap gas cylinders and easy rail travel? Or Picture with &#8216;shahenshah&#8217;s statue&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gandhi&#8217;s attack on the government came days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that setting up selfie booths at railway stations with photographs of Modi is a &#8220;brazen waste&#8221; of taxpayers&#8217; money while opposition states await MGNREGA funds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kharge had also shared a copy of a reply obtained under the Right to Information (RTI) Act that listed the stations under the Central Railway where temporary and permanent selfie booths have been installed. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 30 Dec: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at the government over setting up of selfie booths at railway stations with life-size cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking whether people want easy rail travel or a picture with the &#8220;shahenshah&#8217;s statue.&#8221; In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231842","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=231842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}