{"id":357239,"date":"2020-06-15T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357239"},"modified":"2020-06-15T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:04:43","slug":"congress-announces-lights-off-kerala-protest-against-hike-in-power-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/congress-announces-lights-off-kerala-protest-against-hike-in-power-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress announces &#8216;lights off Kerala&#8217; protest against hike in power charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress in Kerala on Friday decided to stage a dharna on June 17, protesting against exorbitant electricity bills, by switching off lights for three minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Called &#8216;Lights off Kerala&#8217;, the protest will be held on June 17 and the leader of Opposition in the State assembly, Ramesh Chennithala, urged the people of the state to join the movement at 9 PM. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have lost their jobs, their income. They are facing immense difficulties. The spike in the electricity bills came as a shock to the people. We demand withdrawing the increased bills,&#8221; Chennithala said in a press meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress in Kerala on Friday decided to stage a dharna on June 17, protesting against exorbitant electricity bills, by switching off lights for three minutes. Called &#8216;Lights off Kerala&#8217;, the protest will be held on June 17 and the leader of Opposition in the State assembly, Ramesh Chennithala, urged the people of the state to join the movement at 9 PM. &#8220;People have lost their jobs, their income. They are facing immense difficulties. The spike in the electricity bills came as a shock to the people. We demand withdrawing the increased bills,&#8221; Chennithala said in a press meet.<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357239","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=357239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}