{"id":356284,"date":"2020-06-09T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356284"},"modified":"2020-06-09T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T05:11:44","slug":"centres-power-and-agri-reforms-run-into-opposition-from-congress-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centres-power-and-agri-reforms-run-into-opposition-from-congress-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre&#8217;s power and agri reforms run into opposition from Congress CMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Congress chief ministers, Chhattisgarh\u2019s Bhupesh Baghel and Punjab\u2019s Amarinder Singh, have opposed the Centre\u2019s proposed \u201creforms\u201d in the power and agriculture sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The two plan to enlist support of other opposition chief ministers on the two issues, both of which they have argued are anti-farmer and anti-poor.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to union power and renewable energy minister RK Singh on Friday, Baghel said the Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020, was against the interest of farmers and the poor.<\/p>\n<p>Baghel said the proposed legislation would lead to lower crop productivity and hurt food self-sufficiency. He said the bill also violated the rights of the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Congress chief ministers, Chhattisgarh\u2019s Bhupesh Baghel and Punjab\u2019s Amarinder Singh, have opposed the Centre\u2019s proposed \u201creforms\u201d in the power and agriculture sectors. The two plan to enlist support of other opposition chief ministers on the two issues, both of which they have argued are anti-farmer and anti-poor. In a letter to union power and renewable energy minister RK Singh on Friday, Baghel said the Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020, was against the interest of farmers and the poor. Baghel said the proposed legislation would lead to lower crop productivity and hurt food self-sufficiency. He said the bill also violated the [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356284","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=356284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}