{"id":429626,"date":"2021-08-09T08:24:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T02:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429626"},"modified":"2021-08-09T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T03:30:41","slug":"mamata-banerjee-urges-pm-modi-to-withdraw-anti-people-electricity-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mamata-banerjee-urges-pm-modi-to-withdraw-anti-people-electricity-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee urges PM Modi to withdraw &#8216;anti-people&#8217; Electricity Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting the Centre&#8217;s move to place the &#8220;anti-people&#8221; Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in Parliament, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday shot a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to refrain from proceeding with the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>She requested the PM &#8220;to ensure that a broad-based and transparent dialogue on the subject is opened up at the earliest&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I write this letter to re-lodge my protest against the Union Government&#8217;s fresh move to place the much-criticised Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, in Parliament. It was proposed to be moved last year, but many of us had underlined the anti-people aspects of the draft legislation, and at least I had detailed out all the salient pitfalls of the Bill in a letter to you on June 12, 2020,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting the Centre&#8217;s move to place the &#8220;anti-people&#8221; Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in Parliament, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday shot a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to refrain from proceeding with the legislation. She requested the PM &#8220;to ensure that a broad-based and transparent dialogue on the subject is opened up at the earliest&#8221;. &#8220;I write this letter to re-lodge my protest against the Union Government&#8217;s fresh move to place the much-criticised Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, in Parliament. It was proposed to be moved last year, but many of us had underlined the anti-people [&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-429626","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\/429626","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=429626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}