{"id":437247,"date":"2021-09-21T10:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T05:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=437247"},"modified":"2021-09-21T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T06:18:34","slug":"channi-as-aam-aadmi-promises-peoples-govt-free-power-water-for-poor-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/channi-as-aam-aadmi-promises-peoples-govt-free-power-water-for-poor-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Channi as \u2018aam aadmi\u2019: promises people\u2019s govt, free power, water for poor, farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEEKING TO address issues over which his predecessor, Amarinder Singh, had faced criticism, new Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, in his first remarks after taking oath on Monday, underlined his accessibility as an \u201caam aadmi\u201d, assured support to farmers and the poor, and \u201cjustice\u201d in the Bargari sacrilege case.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Assembly elections in the state next year, Channi promised a reduction in power tariff, free power and water supply to farmers and the poor, waiver of their pending power and water bills of the last five years, and a transparent \u201cpeople\u2019s government\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEEKING TO address issues over which his predecessor, Amarinder Singh, had faced criticism, new Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, in his first remarks after taking oath on Monday, underlined his accessibility as an \u201caam aadmi\u201d, assured support to farmers and the poor, and \u201cjustice\u201d in the Bargari sacrilege case. Ahead of the Assembly elections in the state next year, Channi promised a reduction in power tariff, free power and water supply to farmers and the poor, waiver of their pending power and water bills of the last five years, and a transparent \u201cpeople\u2019s government\u201d.<\/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-437247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437247","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=437247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}