{"id":382993,"date":"2020-11-07T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=382993"},"modified":"2020-11-07T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T06:29:57","slug":"karnataka-opposition-slams-power-tariff-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/karnataka-opposition-slams-power-tariff-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: Opposition slams power tariff hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Opposition parties on Thursday criticised the state government\u2019s decision to increase power tariffs, saying people should not be burdened with higher charges while they are coping with the financial pain caused by the pandemic.<br \/>\nRandeep Singh Surjewala, general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) and the party\u2019s Karnataka incharge, tweeted that the government should roll back the hike. \u201cLakhs of people have lost livelihoods and businesses and industries have suffered losses because of the lockdown. The anti-people @BJP-4Karnataka has suddenly hiked electricity tariff by 40 paise per unit. I urge the government to take back the decision immediately,\u201d he wrote.<br \/>\nFormer chief minister HD Kumaraswamy of JD(S) said utility charges should not be increased for at least a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Opposition parties on Thursday criticised the state government\u2019s decision to increase power tariffs, saying people should not be burdened with higher charges while they are coping with the financial pain caused by the pandemic. Randeep Singh Surjewala, general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) and the party\u2019s Karnataka incharge, tweeted that the government should roll back the hike. \u201cLakhs of people have lost livelihoods and businesses and industries have suffered losses because of the lockdown. The anti-people @BJP-4Karnataka has suddenly hiked electricity tariff by 40 paise per unit. I urge the government to take back the decision immediately,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382993","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}