{"id":64622,"date":"2019-04-15T01:06:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T19:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=64622"},"modified":"2019-04-15T01:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T19:36:18","slug":"cong-seeks-probe-into-suspicious-black-trunk-in-pms-chopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/cong-seeks-probe-into-suspicious-black-trunk-in-pms-chopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Cong seeks probe into &#8216;suspicious black trunk&#8217; in PM&#8217;s chopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, Apr 14:<\/strong> The Congress party on Sunday demanded a probe into the alleged transportation of a &#8220;suspicious black trunk&#8221; in Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s helicopter during his visit to Chitradurg in Karnataka for poll campaign.<br \/>\nCongress spokesman Anand Sharma asked the prime minister to come clean and said the Election Commission of India (ECI) should inquire into the contents of the &#8220;trunk.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said the Congress&#8217; Karnataka unit has already filed a complaint with the ECI in this regard.<br \/>\nThe prime minister had addressed an election rally in Karnataka&#8217;s Chitradurga on 9 April.<br \/>\n&#8220;We saw there were three more choppers escorting the prime minister&#8217;s helicopter. After landing, a black trunk was taken out and whisked away in a private car which was not part of the SPG carcade,&#8221; he alleged.<br \/>\nSharma suggested there was cash stashed in the trunk. &#8220;What was there in the trunk? If there was no cash in it, let an inquiry be held,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe party also played a video clip claiming that the purported trunk, after being unloaded from the PM&#8217;s helicopter, was shipped to a private Innova car that Sharma alleged was not a part of the SPG carcade, and taken away.<br \/>\nSharma also asked Modi to give an account of his five-year rule to the people of the country as a tribute to BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Apr 14: The Congress party on Sunday demanded a probe into the alleged transportation of a &#8220;suspicious black trunk&#8221; in Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s helicopter during his visit to Chitradurg in Karnataka for poll campaign. Congress spokesman Anand Sharma asked the prime minister to come clean and said the Election Commission of India [&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-64622","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\/64622","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=64622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}