{"id":447226,"date":"2021-11-02T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T06:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447226"},"modified":"2021-11-02T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:21:07","slug":"power-tariff-cut-in-punjab-a-political-stunt-by-congress-govt-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-tariff-cut-in-punjab-a-political-stunt-by-congress-govt-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Power tariff cut in Punjab a political stunt by Congress govt: BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s Punjab unit on Monday said the Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government\u2019s move to slash power tariffs was a mere political stunt. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPunjabis will never forget the insensitivity of the Congress government in the last four-and-a-half years. Now to cover its sins, the state government is making desperate attempts,\u201d said party state general secretary Subhash Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>He said the state government\u2019s appeasement strategy by announcing hike in dearness allowance (DA) was ironic as the employees were still paid on the basis of the 6th pay commission recommendations. <\/p>\n<p>The employees in Punjab have suffered a lot in the last over four years even as the Narendra Modi government at the Centre has implemented the 7th pay commission, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s Punjab unit on Monday said the Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government\u2019s move to slash power tariffs was a mere political stunt. \u201cPunjabis will never forget the insensitivity of the Congress government in the last four-and-a-half years. Now to cover its sins, the state government is making desperate attempts,\u201d said party state general secretary Subhash Sharma. He said the state government\u2019s appeasement strategy by announcing hike in dearness allowance (DA) was ironic as the employees were still paid on the basis of the 6th pay commission recommendations. The employees in Punjab have suffered a lot in the [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447226","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=447226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}