{"id":47354,"date":"2022-08-11T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/indian-government-accused-of-forcing-poor-to-buy-independence-day-flags"},"modified":"2022-08-11T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:09:59","slug":"indians-forced-to-buy-national-flag-in-return-for-food-rations-says-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47354","title":{"rendered":"Indians forced to buy national flag in return for food rations, says opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shopkeeper filmed telling customer he had been told to deny rations to anyone refusing to buy flag in run-up to Independence Day<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, has accused the government of forcing people entitled to free food at government ration shops to buy flags in return for provisions in the run-up to Independence Day celebrations on 15 August.<\/p>\n<p>India will celebrate 75 years of independence from the Raj on Tuesday, and the streets of cities across the country are full of flags for sale.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/indian-government-accused-of-forcing-poor-to-buy-independence-day-flags\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopkeeper filmed telling customer he had been told to deny rations to anyone refusing to buy flag in run-up to Independence DayIndia\u2019s opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, has accused the government of forcing people entitled to free food at government ra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47354\/revisions\/47355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}