{"id":46593,"date":"2018-09-25T01:35:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=46593"},"modified":"2018-09-25T01:35:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T20:05:27","slug":"apyc-organizes-protests-over-rafale-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/apyc-organizes-protests-over-rafale-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"APYC organizes protests over &#8216;Rafale scam&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 24:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC) on Monday staged statewide protests against the BJP government, alleging corruption in the Rafale deal.<br \/>\nTerming it a major scam, APYC members burnt the effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Naharlagun.<br \/>\nThey said the Rafale deal was &#8220;tweaked by the ruling regime to favour businessman Anil Ambani,&#8221; and called it an example of &#8220;crony capitalism being practiced by PM Modi.&#8221;<br \/>\nRecently, former French president Fran\u00e7ois Hollande in an interview to a media house said France&#8217;s Dassault Aviation was given no choice but to partner with Anil Ambani-led Reliance Defence for the offset clause in the Rafale fighter jet deal. He said it was the Indian government that proposed Reliance&#8217;s name and Dassault had no choice but to take the company given to it.<br \/>\n&#8220;This clearly shows that the PM is helping his crony friend even at the cost of national security,&#8221; the APYC alleged.<br \/>\nIt said it would intensify its agitation over the Rafale deal and the fuel price hike in the coming days.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will organize statewide protests and will ask the BJP where is the promise of &#8216;achhe din&#8217; that PM Modi had made to the people of India in 2014,&#8221; the APYC stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 24: The Arunachal Pradesh Youth Congress (APYC) on Monday staged statewide protests against the BJP government, alleging corruption in the Rafale deal. Terming it a major scam, APYC members burnt the effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Naharlagun. They said the Rafale deal was &#8220;tweaked by the ruling regime to favour businessman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46593","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=46593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}