{"id":835727,"date":"2024-07-22T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=835727"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:46:58","slug":"karnataka-reservation-bill-phonepe-ceo-and-founder-sameer-nigam-issues-this-personal-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/22\/karnataka-reservation-bill-phonepe-ceo-and-founder-sameer-nigam-issues-this-personal-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka reservation bill: PhonePe CEO and founder Sameer Nigam issues this &#8216;personal statement&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe CEO Sameer Nigam issued a personal note following backlash over his comments on Karnataka&#8217;s job reservation bill. The controversy erupted after Nigam criticised the bill on social media platform X, questioning whether his children deserved jobs in their home city given his company&#8217;s pan-India job creation.<br \/>\n&#8220;If my comments hurt anyone&#8217;s sentiments, I am truly sorry and would like to offer you an unconditional apology,&#8221; Nigam said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe CEO Sameer Nigam issued a personal note following backlash over his comments on Karnataka&#8217;s job reservation bill. The controversy erupted after Nigam criticised the bill on social media platform X, questioning whether his children deserved jobs in their home city given his company&#8217;s pan-India job creation. &#8220;If my comments hurt anyone&#8217;s sentiments, I am truly sorry and would like to offer you an unconditional apology,&#8221; Nigam said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835727","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}