{"id":416085,"date":"2021-05-20T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T06:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416085"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T06:41:44","slug":"despite-defeat-metroman-sreedharan-keeps-word-to-voters-ensures-power-connection-to-sc-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-defeat-metroman-sreedharan-keeps-word-to-voters-ensures-power-connection-to-sc-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite defeat, Metroman Sreedharan keeps word to voters &#8212; ensures power connection to SC families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALAKKAD: He might have lost to Congress\u2019 Shafi Parambil by a margin of nearly 4,000 votes, but Metroman E Sreedharan \u2014 BJP candidate in Palakkad constituency in the recent assembly polls &#8212; has gone ahead and kept his word to the voters anyway. <\/p>\n<p>During his election campaigning, the 88-year-old had promised residents of Maduraveeran colony in Palakkad Municipality that \u201cwhether he wins or not, all families will get power connections\u201d. He made the promise after a group of residents approached him with the complaint that some Scheduled Caste (SC) families in Ward 3 of the municipality did not have power connections, while it was discontinued for some others because they had pending arrears to be paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALAKKAD: He might have lost to Congress\u2019 Shafi Parambil by a margin of nearly 4,000 votes, but Metroman E Sreedharan \u2014 BJP candidate in Palakkad constituency in the recent assembly polls &#8212; has gone ahead and kept his word to the voters anyway. During his election campaigning, the 88-year-old had promised residents of Maduraveeran colony in Palakkad Municipality that \u201cwhether he wins or not, all families will get power connections\u201d. He made the promise after a group of residents approached him with the complaint that some Scheduled Caste (SC) families in Ward 3 of the municipality did not have power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416085","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}