{"id":448470,"date":"2021-11-09T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T03:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448470"},"modified":"2021-11-09T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T03:46:11","slug":"fuel-price-hike-protest-kerela-legislator-rides-bicycle-to-reach-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-price-hike-protest-kerela-legislator-rides-bicycle-to-reach-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price hike protest: Kerela legislator rides bicycle to reach Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Assembly on Monday witnessed a novel mode of protest as an opposition legislator pedalled a bicycle to reach the House complex against the state government&#8217;s stand not to forgo tax on petrol and diesel on the lines of the Centre.<\/p>\n<p>When senior Congress leader and Kovalam legislator M Vincent rode a bicycle alone to the sprawling Assembly campus, it was a matter of amusement for passers-by and the staff at the House.<\/p>\n<p>He chose the innovative protest method to express solidarity with the Congress party&#8217;s state-wide &#8216;wheel stop&#8217; agitation against the state government over the fuel prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kerala Assembly on Monday witnessed a novel mode of protest as an opposition legislator pedalled a bicycle to reach the House complex against the state government&#8217;s stand not to forgo tax on petrol and diesel on the lines of the Centre. When senior Congress leader and Kovalam legislator M Vincent rode a bicycle alone to the sprawling Assembly campus, it was a matter of amusement for passers-by and the staff at the House. He chose the innovative protest method to express solidarity with the Congress party&#8217;s state-wide &#8216;wheel stop&#8217; agitation against the state government over the fuel prices.<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448470","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=448470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}