{"id":977896,"date":"2025-12-02T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977896"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:05:02","slug":"congress-venugopal-hits-out-at-dot-over-mandatory-sanchar-saathi-app-beyond-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/02\/congress-venugopal-hits-out-at-dot-over-mandatory-sanchar-saathi-app-beyond-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress&#8217; Venugopal hits out at DoT over mandatory \u2018Sanchar Saathi\u2019 app: \u2018Beyond unconstitutional\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress on Monday rejected directions of the Department of Telecommunications on the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app in new mobile handsets as unconstitutional and demanded its immediate rollback.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to social media platform X, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said that the direction by DoT \u201cis beyond unconstitutional,&#8221; adding that the \u201cBig Brother cannot watch us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress on Monday rejected directions of the Department of Telecommunications on the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app in new mobile handsets as unconstitutional and demanded its immediate rollback. Taking to social media platform X, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said that the direction by DoT \u201cis beyond unconstitutional,&#8221; adding that the \u201cBig Brother cannot watch us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977896","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}