{"id":307218,"date":"2019-12-24T12:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T06:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307218"},"modified":"2019-12-24T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T07:12:32","slug":"swadeshis-oppose-bpcl-selloff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/swadeshis-oppose-bpcl-selloff\/","title":{"rendered":"Swadeshis oppose BPCL selloff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swadeshi lobby is hotly contesting the Narendra Modi-government\u2019s move to sell majority stakes in BPCL and some other PSUs, with RSS trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) questioning the merits of the selloffs, which are critical to meet the government\u2019s revenue target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously, the government wanted to sell loss-making units, but found that no sensible parties are ready to buy them. So, now the new policy is to sell hot-selling profit making PSUs,\u201d Virjesh Upadhyay, general secretary, BMS, said. \u201cIt is not good economics. Hence, government has to rethink seriously about its revenue crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that bodies affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the ruling BJP, have raised concerns over the economic policies of the Modi government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swadeshi lobby is hotly contesting the Narendra Modi-government\u2019s move to sell majority stakes in BPCL and some other PSUs, with RSS trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) questioning the merits of the selloffs, which are critical to meet the government\u2019s revenue target. \u201cPreviously, the government wanted to sell loss-making units, but found that no sensible parties are ready to buy them. So, now the new policy is to sell hot-selling profit making PSUs,\u201d Virjesh Upadhyay, general secretary, BMS, said. \u201cIt is not good economics. Hence, government has to rethink seriously about its revenue crisis.\u201d This is not the first [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307218","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=307218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}