{"id":302263,"date":"2019-11-22T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302263"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:26:21","slug":"selling-family-silver-cpm-supports-employees-strike-against-bpcl-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/selling-family-silver-cpm-supports-employees-strike-against-bpcl-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Selling family silver&#8217;: CP(M) supports employees&#8217; strike against BPCL sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has extended its support to a proposed countrywide strike of BPCL employees on November 28 against the privatisation of the public sector enterprise, saying that the move is &#8220;completely detrimental to India&#8217;s sovereignty.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) extends its support to the countrywide strike by all unions of BPCL on November 28. The CPI(M) has already announced a month-long campaign against privatisation of PSUs in December,&#8221; said the party in a statement on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to meet its profligate expenditure, mostly on propaganda and spin, this government is selling public assets to meet a target of raising Rs 1.10 lakh crore. In the process, productive and value-creating PSUs are being sold to promote their crony corporates to gain strategic control of the Indian economy,&#8221; added the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has extended its support to a proposed countrywide strike of BPCL employees on November 28 against the privatisation of the public sector enterprise, saying that the move is &#8220;completely detrimental to India&#8217;s sovereignty.&#8221; &#8220;The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) extends its support to the countrywide strike by all unions of BPCL on November 28. The CPI(M) has already announced a month-long campaign against privatisation of PSUs in December,&#8221; said the party in a statement on Thursday. &#8220;In order to meet its profligate expenditure, mostly on propaganda and spin, this government is selling public assets [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302263","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=302263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}