{"id":829886,"date":"2024-07-06T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=829886"},"modified":"2024-07-06T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T03:35:34","slug":"crony-capitalism-thriving-under-modi-congress-on-jio-airtel-tariff-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/06\/crony-capitalism-thriving-under-modi-congress-on-jio-airtel-tariff-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Crony capitalism thriving under Modi: Congress on Jio, Airtel tariff hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday slammed the Narendra Modi government, accusing it of \u2018fleecing\u2019 109 crore cell phone users in India after telecom majors Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea announced a hike on their mobile tariff plans from this week. <\/p>\n<p>Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala questioned the Centre\u2019s intent, asking how the companies were unilaterally allowed to increase the rates without any oversight and regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday slammed the Narendra Modi government, accusing it of \u2018fleecing\u2019 109 crore cell phone users in India after telecom majors Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea announced a hike on their mobile tariff plans from this week. Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala questioned the Centre\u2019s intent, asking how the companies were unilaterally allowed to increase the rates without any oversight and regulation.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829886","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=829886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}