{"id":1015415,"date":"2026-06-18T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015415"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:56:53","slug":"rahul-slams-telegram-ban-calls-it-govts-theatrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/rahul-slams-telegram-ban-calls-it-govts-theatrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul slams Telegram ban, calls it Govt\u2019s theatrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday criticised the Government after it temporarily restricted access to Telegram, saying the \u201cnew trick\u201d was akin to putting a lock on the victim\u2019s house instead of catching the thief. <\/p>\n<p>Telegram has stopped working for existing users in India after the Centre temporarily restricted access to the messaging app ahead of the June 21 NEET-UG re-examination, but it continues to remain operational through the Virtual Private Network (VPN).  Google delisted the app on Tuesday, and Apple\u2019s App Store has also removed it now in compliance with the Government order to block access to the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday criticised the Government after it temporarily restricted access to Telegram, saying the \u201cnew trick\u201d was akin to putting a lock on the victim\u2019s house instead of catching the thief. Telegram has stopped working for existing users in India after the Centre temporarily restricted access to the messaging app ahead of the June 21 NEET-UG re-examination, but it continues to remain operational through the Virtual Private Network (VPN). Google delisted the app on Tuesday, and Apple\u2019s App Store has also removed it now in compliance with the Government order to block access to the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015430,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015415\/revisions\/1015430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}