{"id":385281,"date":"2020-11-20T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T05:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385281"},"modified":"2020-11-20T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T06:36:46","slug":"power-firms-in-bad-shape-raut-says-blames-bjp-for-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-firms-in-bad-shape-raut-says-blames-bjp-for-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Power firms in bad shape, Raut says, blames BJP for `mess&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing growing demand to waive `high&#8217; electricity bills, Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Thursday said the state power firms are making huge losses, and it was a &#8220;mess&#8221; created by the previous BJP regime. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, Raut also said that he had sent several proposals to the state finance department seeking help, but &#8220;nothing happened&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the BJP-led Union government was acting like a &#8220;money-lender&#8221;, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Raut, a Congress leader, is under fire from opposition BJP and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) over his statement that consumers will have to make full payment of electricity bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing growing demand to waive `high&#8217; electricity bills, Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Thursday said the state power firms are making huge losses, and it was a &#8220;mess&#8221; created by the previous BJP regime. Speaking to reporters, Raut also said that he had sent several proposals to the state finance department seeking help, but &#8220;nothing happened&#8221;. On the other hand, the BJP-led Union government was acting like a &#8220;money-lender&#8221;, he said. Raut, a Congress leader, is under fire from opposition BJP and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) over his statement that consumers will have to make full payment of electricity [&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-385281","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\/385281","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=385281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}