{"id":30670,"date":"2017-10-30T18:13:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=30670"},"modified":"2017-10-30T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T12:47:06","slug":"rahul-gandhi-fires-another-anti-demonetisation-torpedo-at-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/rahul-gandhi-fires-another-anti-demonetisation-torpedo-at-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi fires another anti-demonetisation torpedo at PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Congress vice president hits out at Narendra Modi and BJP for proposed celebration of noteban anniversary, calls demonetisation an out and out disaster<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Keeping up his attack against Narendra Modi and the BJP over demonetisation and the glitches in the Goods and Services Tax implementation, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi,\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_2012227542\">on Monday<\/span>, said that the Prime Minister has \u201cnot been able to understand the pain of the people\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDYmxvY2txdW90ZSUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIydHdpdHRlci10d2VldCUyMiUyMGRhdGEtbGFuZyUzRCUyMmVuJTIyJTNFJTNDcCUyMGxhbmclM0QlMjJlbiUyMiUyMGRpciUzRCUyMmx0ciUyMiUzRTglMjBOb3YlMjBpcyUyMGElMjBzYWQlMjBkYXklMjBmb3IlMjBJbmRpYS4lMjBQTSUyME1vZGklMjBoYXMlMjBub3QlMjBiZWVuJTIwYWJsZSUyMHRvJTIwdW5kZXJzdGFuZCUyMHRoZSUyMGZlZWxpbmclMjBvZiUyMHRoZSUyMG5hdGlvbi4lMjAlM0NhJTIwaHJlZiUzRCUyMmh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGdHdpdHRlci5jb20lMkZoYXNodGFnJTJGRGVtb25ldGlzYXRpb24lM0ZzcmMlM0RoYXNoJTI2YW1wJTNCcmVmX3NyYyUzRHR3c3JjJTI1NUV0ZnclMjIlM0UlMjNEZW1vbmV0aXNhdGlvbiUzQyUyRmElM0UlMjB3YXMlMjBhJTIwZGlzYXN0ZXIlM0FSYWh1bCUyMEdhbmRoaSUyMCUzQ2ElMjBocmVmJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0LmNvJTJGZHdFc1NNQllkZyUyMiUzRXBpYy50d2l0dGVyLmNvbSUyRmR3RXNTTUJZZGclM0MlMkZhJTNFJTNDJTJGcCUzRSUyNm1kYXNoJTNCJTIwQU5JJTIwJTI4JTQwQU5JJTI5JTIwJTNDYSUyMGhyZWYlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnR3aXR0ZXIuY29tJTJGQU5JJTJGc3RhdHVzJTJGOTI0OTA4NjQyNTExNDc4Nzg0JTNGcmVmX3NyYyUzRHR3c3JjJTI1NUV0ZnclMjIlM0VPY3RvYmVyJTIwMzAlMkMlMjAyMDE3JTNDJTJGYSUzRSUzQyUyRmJsb2NrcXVvdGUlM0UlMEElM0NzY3JpcHQlMjBhc3luYyUyMHNyYyUzRCUyMmh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGcGxhdGZvcm0udHdpdHRlci5jb20lMkZ3aWRnZXRzLmpzJTIyJTIwY2hhcnNldCUzRCUyMnV0Zi04JTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGc2NyaXB0JTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]With his party set to observe the first anniversary of demonetisation on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2012227545\"><span class=\"aQJ\">November 8<\/span><\/span>\u00a0as a \u2018black day\u2019 \u2013 the BJP has declared that it will organise celebrations to mark the occasion as anti-black money day \u2013 Rahul headed a meeting of all Congress general secretaries at the AICC headquarters,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=24+Akbar+Road&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">24 Akbar Road<\/a>,\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2012227546\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Monday<\/span><\/span>. His chairing the meeting of the party\u2019s senior office bearers is in itself symbolic of his growing involvement with party affairs in the run up to his imminent elevation as the Congress president, something that Congress sources say will happen \u201canytime in November\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]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[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]Demonetisation and the GST rollout seem to have become the Congress vice president\u2019s favourite sticks to rap the Modi government with. Rahul has been repeatedly speaking about the damage that the twin decisions of the Modi government have wreaked upon the common man in general and the Indian economy in particular. He had earlier termed demonetisation and hasty implementation of the GST regime by the Centre as a \u201cdouble tap\u201d attack by Modi on Indian citizens. He had also mocked the Prime Minister by stating that only \u201csomeone with a big chest, but a very small heart\u201d (a reference to Modi and swipe at his famous 56 inch chest boast) can \u201cmake millions of Indian citizens stand in queues for over two months\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_2012227549\">On Monday<\/span>\u00a0too, the Congress vice president decided to focus his attack on Modi through the prism of demonetisation and GST.[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]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[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/narendra-modi\">Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) <\/a>is yet not able to understand the pain of the nation\u2026I don\u2019t know what they are going to celebrate.\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_2012227551\">November 8<\/span>\u00a0is a sad day for us,\u201d he said referring to the government\u2019s decision to observe the noteban anniversary it as anti-black money day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we had two meetings, one on <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/demonetisation\">demonetisation <\/a>and the other on GST. In the demonetisation meeting we discussed how the country has suffered and many small businesses have closed. In the GST meeting, it was discussed how a good idea was destroyed,\u201d Gandhi said. The Prime Minister had fired \u201ctwo torpedoes \u2013 demonetisation and poor implementation of GST\u201d on the Indian economy, Rahul asserted, adding that the \u201cIndian economy was now in the ICU\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Congress vice president hits out at Narendra Modi and BJP for proposed celebration of noteban anniversary, calls demonetisation an out and out disaster Keeping up his attack against Narendra Modi and the BJP over demonetisation and the glitches in the Goods and Services Tax implementation, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi,\u00a0on Monday, said that the Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[86,111,913,1399,110],"yst_prominent_words":[27965,27962,27276,3813,14143,14142,4019,21034,3887,20477,6893,3715,3882,3710,27964,27272,4396,27963,20986,13078],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RaGa-MMD1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30670"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30670"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=30670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->