{"id":299579,"date":"2019-11-05T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299579"},"modified":"2019-11-05T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:16:53","slug":"energy-minister-free-to-file-defamation-case-says-up-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/energy-minister-free-to-file-defamation-case-says-up-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Minister free to file defamation case, says UP Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh Congress reacted strongly to Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma\u2019s threat to file a defamation suit against party chief Ajay Kumar \u2018Lallu\u2019 if he did not tender unconditional apology for his statement on multi-crore rupee UP Power Corporation employees provident fund investment scam. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSharma is free to file a defamation case but we will not relent until he is sacked from the government and arrested for his involvement in the EPF scam,\u201d said UPCC administration in-charge Siddharth Priya Srivastava while reacting to Sharma\u2019s threat. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA scam of over Rs 2,600 crore is not possible without the Energy Minister\u2019s involvement. The Chief Minister made all efforts to save Sharma from the scam but after AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra exposed it through a tweet, the state again moved in to save Sharma by sending two government officers to jail and ordering a CBI probe in the matter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh Congress reacted strongly to Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma\u2019s threat to file a defamation suit against party chief Ajay Kumar \u2018Lallu\u2019 if he did not tender unconditional apology for his statement on multi-crore rupee UP Power Corporation employees provident fund investment scam. \u201cSharma is free to file a defamation case but we will not relent until he is sacked from the government and arrested for his involvement in the EPF scam,\u201d said UPCC administration in-charge Siddharth Priya Srivastava while reacting to Sharma\u2019s threat. \u201cA scam of over Rs 2,600 crore is not possible without the Energy Minister\u2019s involvement. [&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-299579","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\/299579","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=299579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}