{"id":89248,"date":"2019-05-23T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T22:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89248"},"modified":"2019-05-23T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T22:30:04","slug":"smriti-who-priyanka-gandhis-remark-comes-back-to-bite-as-smriti-irani-beats-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/23\/smriti-who-priyanka-gandhis-remark-comes-back-to-bite-as-smriti-irani-beats-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smriti&#8230;who?&#8217; Priyanka Gandhi&#8217;s remark comes back to bite as Smriti Irani beats Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstoday.in\/search.jsp?searchword=BusinessToday.In&amp;searchtype=text&amp;searchphrase=exact&amp;search_type=author\">BusinessToday.In<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0New Delhi\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This comment has come back to haunt the Congress party after its president Rahul Gandhi lost its home turf Amethi to Union minister Smriti Irani in a close contest<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p> \u00a0\u00a0 Last Updated: May 23, 2019 \u00a0| 22:06 IST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smedia2.intoday.in\/btmt\/images\/stories\/smriti_pti_660x450_052319092919.jpg\" alt=\"'Smriti...who?' Priyanka Gandhi's remark comes back to bite as Smriti Irani beats Rahul Gandhi\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Smriti&#8230;who?&#8221; was Priyanka Gandhi Vadra&#8217;s response to a question about Smriti Irani, who was contesting election against her brother, Rahul, in Amethi back in 2014. During a road show, Priyanka, campaigning for Rahul Gandhi, had taken potshots at Smriti Irani by refusing to acknowledge her candidature against her brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Who?&quot; asks Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Smriti Irani\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qmplKKAtYV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This comment has come back to haunt the Congress party after its president Rahul Gandhi lost its home turf Amethi to Union minister Smriti Irani in a close contest. The video is trending on social media today after Irani&#8217;s victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many lauded the fighting spirit of Smriti Irani and took a dig at the Congress party for dismal performance in the election. Here&#8217;s how Twitter reacted:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessToday.In\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0New Delhi\u00a0 This comment has come back to haunt the Congress party after its president Rahul Gandhi lost its home turf Amethi to Union minister Smriti Irani in a close contest \u00a0\u00a0 Last Updated: May 23, 2019 \u00a0| 22:06 IST &#8220;Smriti&#8230;who?&#8221; was Priyanka Gandhi Vadra&#8217;s response to a question about Smriti Irani, who was contesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}