{"id":125930,"date":"2018-01-28T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=125930"},"modified":"2018-01-28T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T15:48:22","slug":"even-begging-is-a-job-chidambaram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/even-begging-is-a-job-chidambaram\/","title":{"rendered":"Even begging is a job: Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attacking the Modi regime, Chidambaram said, ”The NDA government’s wild claims of creating 70 lakh new jobs in 2017-18 has been punctured now.<\/p>\n

\"chidambaram<\/p>\n

Taking a dig at PM Modi, Chidambaram said that he should understand that there is a marked difference between job and self-employment as the former is “regular and reasonably secure”.<\/p>\n

The veteran Congress leader was referring to PM Modi’s interview on January 19 where he had said, ”If a person sells ‘pakodas’ and takes home Rs 200 every evening, is that not employment?”<\/p>\n

In a firm rebuttal to the PM’s contention, Chidambaram tweeted, ”Even selling pakodas is a ‘job’ said PM. By that logic, even begging is a job.<\/p>\n

Let’s count poor or disabled persons who are forced to beg for a living as ’employed’ people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attacking the Modi regime, Chidambaram said, ”The NDA government’s wild claims of creating 70 lakh new jobs in 2017-18 has been punctured now. Taking a dig at PM Modi, Chidambaram said that he should understand that there is a marked difference between job and self-employment as the former is “regular and reasonably secure”. The veteran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[29682,306,2732,246],"class_list":["post-125930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-chidambaram","tag-congress","tag-nda-government","tag-pm-modi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Chidambaram.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125930","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=125930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}