{"id":354328,"date":"2020-05-29T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354328"},"modified":"2020-05-29T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T07:18:00","slug":"dmk-says-power-bill-against-federalism-tells-pm-modi-to-halt-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dmk-says-power-bill-against-federalism-tells-pm-modi-to-halt-move\/","title":{"rendered":"DMK says Power Bill against federalism, tells PM Modi to halt move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Batting against any move to halt free electricity, DMK president M K Stalin on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 as it \u201cencroached\u201d the rights of the States and went \u201cagainst the principles of federalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Free power supply has been a key pillar of economic growth in Tamil Nadu which protected lakhs of farmers and reined in food inflation, Stalin said in a letter to Modi. Undoing such a policy of free electricity through the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 \u201cwould severely threaten the livelihood of lakhs of our farmers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batting against any move to halt free electricity, DMK president M K Stalin on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 as it \u201cencroached\u201d the rights of the States and went \u201cagainst the principles of federalism.\u201d Free power supply has been a key pillar of economic growth in Tamil Nadu which protected lakhs of farmers and reined in food inflation, Stalin said in a letter to Modi. Undoing such a policy of free electricity through the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 \u201cwould severely threaten the livelihood of lakhs of our farmers,\u201d he said.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354328","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=354328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}