{"id":307696,"date":"2019-12-28T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307696"},"modified":"2019-12-28T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T06:26:43","slug":"aap-to-gherao-punjab-cm-on-high-power-tariff-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aap-to-gherao-punjab-cm-on-high-power-tariff-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP to \u2018gherao\u2019 Punjab CM on high power tariff issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced to \u2018gherao\u2019 Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh\u2019s official residence in Chandigarh on January 7 to protest against the government\u2019s dictatorial decision to hike electricity tariff in the State, pressing for a roll back on the decision.<\/p>\n<p>AAP Sunam MLA Aman Arora and Barnala MLA Meet Hayer (Gurmeet Singh) on Friday said that every section of society was passing through economic hardships due to anti-people policies of the Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPunjab Cabinet\u2019s decision to jack up electricity tariff further by 36 paise per unit from January 1 would crush the common consumer,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>They said that power tariff in the State was already on the higher side compared to other states of the country, despite being a state power surplus State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced to \u2018gherao\u2019 Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh\u2019s official residence in Chandigarh on January 7 to protest against the government\u2019s dictatorial decision to hike electricity tariff in the State, pressing for a roll back on the decision. AAP Sunam MLA Aman Arora and Barnala MLA Meet Hayer (Gurmeet Singh) on Friday said that every section of society was passing through economic hardships due to anti-people policies of the Government. \u201cPunjab Cabinet\u2019s decision to jack up electricity tariff further by 36 paise per unit from January 1 would crush the common consumer,\u201d they said. They [&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-307696","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\/307696","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=307696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}