{"id":275698,"date":"2019-05-22T06:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T06:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=275698"},"modified":"2019-05-22T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T07:02:24","slug":"aap-to-protest-if-pb-govt-goes-ahead-with-power-tariff-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aap-to-protest-if-pb-govt-goes-ahead-with-power-tariff-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP to protest if Pb Govt goes ahead with power tariff hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criticizing the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission\u2019s (PSERC) proposed move to jack up electricity rates in the state, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said that the Capt Amarinder Singh government should take a cue from Delhi model so that the people could heave a sigh of relief from the scare of high electricity rates in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the proposed rate revision by three percent, AAP\u2019s senior leader and the Leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Harpal Singh Cheema threatened to mount a state-wide protest on the roads as also raise the issue on the floor of the House if the Captain Government did not desist from raising the electricity rate.<\/p>\n<p>Cheema demanded that the Punjab Government, instead of jacking up electricity rate more than once a year, should replicate the Delhi model sooner than later to bring cheer on the faces of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticizing the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission\u2019s (PSERC) proposed move to jack up electricity rates in the state, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said that the Capt Amarinder Singh government should take a cue from Delhi model so that the people could heave a sigh of relief from the scare of high electricity rates in the state. Reacting to the proposed rate revision by three percent, AAP\u2019s senior leader and the Leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Harpal Singh Cheema threatened to mount a state-wide protest on the roads as also raise the issue on the floor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}