{"id":4440,"date":"2019-02-15T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T07:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:41","slug":"rahul-gandhi-stands-in-solidarity-with-government-on-pulwama-says-no-other-discussion-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/rahul-gandhi-stands-in-solidarity-with-government-on-pulwama-says-no-other-discussion-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi stands in solidarity with government on Pulwama, says \u2018no other discussion\u2019 now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on the Pulwama attack which claimed the lives of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama yesterday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi stated that his party stands in solidarity with the government at this time of mourning. The Congress, he said, wouldn\u2019t get into any \u2018other discussion\u2019 for the next two days.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, the Congress president refused to answer any political questions at a time he described to be \u2018difficult\u2019 for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The terror strike on the CRPF convoy on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway on Thursday evening killing 40 soldiers took place after a car bomb carrying 350 kg of explosives dashed into it.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it \u2018a time of mourning, a time of sadness, a time of respect\u2019, Rahul Gandhi said that the Congress stood by the government and the jawans. There would be no \u2018other conversation\u2019 on the matter, at least for the \u2018next couple of days\u2019, he stated. Questions of security lapses would have to wait as it was neither the time nor the place for it, added the Congress president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on the Pulwama attack which claimed the lives of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama yesterday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi stated that his party stands in solidarity with the government at this time of mourning. The Congress, he said, wouldn\u2019t get into any \u2018other discussion\u2019 for the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}