{"id":1029706,"date":"2026-08-19T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029706"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:36:05","slug":"attack-on-right-to-dissent-kharge-targets-modi-government-over-social-media-blocking-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/attack-on-right-to-dissent-kharge-targets-modi-government-over-social-media-blocking-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Attack on right to dissent\u2019: Kharge targets Modi government over social media blocking spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday accused the Modi government of launching a brazen and calculated attack on the democratic right of every Indian to question and to dissent as he condemned its reported takedown orders on social media posts. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, he claimed that the Modi government has issued 1.95 lakh blocking orders in just five months &#8211; most of them &#8220;against students and youth who came out on the streets demanding accountability&#8221; from authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday accused the Modi government of launching a brazen and calculated attack on the democratic right of every Indian to question and to dissent as he condemned its reported takedown orders on social media posts. In a post on X, he claimed that the Modi government has issued 1.95 lakh blocking orders in just five months &#8211; most of them &#8220;against students and youth who came out on the streets demanding accountability&#8221; from authorities.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029706","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=1029706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029725,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029706\/revisions\/1029725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}