{"id":11846,"date":"2023-09-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=11846"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T07:38:25","slug":"evening-snapshot-rahul-gandhi-dons-porter-look-sparks-bjp-backlash-dmk-criticizes-centre-on-neet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/evening-snapshot-rahul-gandhi-dons-porter-look-sparks-bjp-backlash-dmk-criticizes-centre-on-neet\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Snapshot: Rahul Gandhi Dons Porter Look, Sparks BJP Backlash; DMK Criticizes Centre on NEET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meanwhile, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal expresses concern about Centre\u2019s decision to suspend visa services in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cho.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cho.png 509w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cho-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cho-390x220.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress leader\u00a0Rahul Gandhi on Thursday created a flutter on social media\u00a0following his interaction with porters at East Delhi\u2019s Anand Vihar railway station, where he even lifted luggage after donning the porters\u2019 uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress published Rahul\u2019s pictures, saying he was a \u201cJannayak\u201d or \u201cpeople\u2019s person\u201d. The\u00a0Wayanad\u00a0MP said he decided to visit after the porters at the station \u2014 among\u00a0Delhi\u2019s busiest and most significant transit points \u2014 requested him last month. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera shared pictures of Rahul\u2019s visit on X, writing in Hindi: \u201c<em>Paseenain ke syaahi se jo likhte hai apne iraadon ko, unke mukhair ke pannain kabhi korein nahi hua karte<\/em>\u00a0(Those who write with the ink of sweat your intentions, The pages of their destiny are never blank).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0BJP\u00a0was quick to respond, saying it was obvious that Gandhi had not been to a railway station in the recent past. BJP IT in-charge Amit Malviya said, \u201cOnly someone as dumb as\u00a0Rahul Gandhi\u00a0would carry a suitcase on head when it has wheels \u2026 It is obvious he hasn\u2019t been to a railway station off late \u2026 Several of them now have escalators or ramps for convenience of passengers and porters. All this is nothing but theatrics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, with the National Medical Commission (NMC) on Wednesday reducing the qualifying percentile of the NEET PG 2023 exam to zero across all categories \u2014 making all candidates who appeared for the exam eligible for participation in the counselling process \u2014 the DMK, which is already engaged in a protracted row with the Centre over the exam, hit out at the BJP,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin took to X to say that the NEET had now become \u201cmeaningless\u201d. He wrote on X. \u201cIt\u2019s just about coaching centres and paying for the exam. No more qualification is required. NEET = 0. NEET has nothing to do with merit, which we have been saying all along. It has become a mere formality, devoid of any real eligibility criteria. The Union BJP Govt remained heartless despite so many precious lives were lost and has now come up with an order like this. The BJP Govt must be removed just for causing loss of lives with the guillotine called #NEET.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal expresses concern about Centre\u2019s decision to suspend visa services in Canada. Congress leader\u00a0Rahul Gandhi on Thursday created a flutter on social media\u00a0following his interaction with porters at East Delhi\u2019s Anand Vihar railway station, where he even lifted luggage after donning the porters\u2019 uniform. The Congress published Rahul\u2019s pictures, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2857,15625,15626,11531,2224],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-india-news","tag-indian-news","tag-neet","tag-news","tag-rahul-gandhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11850,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions\/11850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}