{"id":835782,"date":"2024-07-22T10:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=835782"},"modified":"2024-07-22T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T05:02:25","slug":"amid-boycott-phonepe-campaign-ceo-sameer-nigam-apologises-for-his-statement-on-karnataka-job-reservation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/22\/amid-boycott-phonepe-campaign-ceo-sameer-nigam-apologises-for-his-statement-on-karnataka-job-reservation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid \u2018Boycott PhonePe\u2019 campaign, CEO Sameer Nigam apologises for his statement on Karnataka job reservation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe founder and CEO Sameer Nigam apologised on Sunday for his comments over Karnataka\u2019s draft job reservation Bill, stating that he never intended to insult the state and its people. Nigam\u2019s statement came after some Kannada groups started a \u2018Boycott Phone Pe\u2019 campaign. <\/p>\n<p>The Karnataka Rakshana Vedike and other pro-Kannada organisations and members launched the campaign on social media to boycott PhonePe after Nigam\u2019s post on X commenting on the Karnataka Cabinet approved The Karnataka State Employment of Local Candidates in the Industries, Factories and Other Establishments Bill, 2024\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhonePe founder and CEO Sameer Nigam apologised on Sunday for his comments over Karnataka\u2019s draft job reservation Bill, stating that he never intended to insult the state and its people. Nigam\u2019s statement came after some Kannada groups started a \u2018Boycott Phone Pe\u2019 campaign. The Karnataka Rakshana Vedike and other pro-Kannada organisations and members launched the campaign on social media to boycott PhonePe after Nigam\u2019s post on X commenting on the Karnataka Cabinet approved The Karnataka State Employment of Local Candidates in the Industries, Factories and Other Establishments Bill, 2024\u2019.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835782","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=835782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}