{"id":120186,"date":"2017-12-26T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=120186"},"modified":"2017-12-26T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T13:30:39","slug":"modi-bad-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/modi-bad-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi is bad Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress indirectly referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as &#8220;Bad Santa&#8221; for implementing problematic schemes like the unified Goods and Services Tax (GST) and note ban.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-120187 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/manish-tiwari759.jpg\" alt=\" Modi is bad Santa \" width=\"541\" height=\"301\" \/><br \/>\nIn a tweet a day after Christmas, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said that in the rest of the world &#8220;an old man with a white beard&#8221; distributed gifts to people, while in India, a similar looking man did quite the opposite \u2013 took away public\u2019s money and left them only with the socks.<\/p>\n<p>It was obvious that Tewari&#8217;s jibe was indicated at Modi, whose Government still holds the GST and demonetisation as pillars of success.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-120188 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/59425918-2.jpg\" alt=\" Modi is bad Santa \" width=\"579\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/59425918-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/59425918-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Opposition has been relentlessly pointing out the failure of both the schemes, saying they were hasty, ill-implemented and have slowed economic growth, especially for small businesses, an effect that is likely to last longer than a few fiscal quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress indirectly referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as &#8220;Bad Santa&#8221; for implementing problematic schemes like the unified Goods and Services Tax (GST) and note ban. In a tweet a day after Christmas, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said that in the rest of the world &#8220;an old man with a white beard&#8221; distributed gifts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[61584,306,208,266,61583,318,2373],"class_list":["post-120186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bad-santa","tag-congress","tag-goods-and-services-tax","tag-modi","tag-modi-is-bad-santa","tag-prime-minister-narendra-modi","tag-tweet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}