{"id":429776,"date":"2021-08-09T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429776"},"modified":"2021-08-09T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T06:44:53","slug":"mamata-writes-to-pm-modi-to-oppose-centres-move-to-place-anti-people-electricity-bill-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mamata-writes-to-pm-modi-to-oppose-centres-move-to-place-anti-people-electricity-bill-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata writes to PM Modi to oppose Centre\u2019s move to place \u2018anti-people\u2019 Electricity Bill in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting the Centre\u2019s move to place the \u201canti-people\u201d 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 \u201cto ensure that a broad-based and transparent dialogue on the subject is opened up at the earliest\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI write this letter to re-lodge my protest against the Union Government\u2019s 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,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting the Centre\u2019s move to place the \u201canti-people\u201d 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 \u201cto ensure that a broad-based and transparent dialogue on the subject is opened up at the earliest\u201d. \u201cI write this letter to re-lodge my protest against the Union Government\u2019s 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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429776","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=429776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}