{"id":454363,"date":"2021-12-06T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T05:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=454363"},"modified":"2021-12-06T12:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T06:58:50","slug":"balason-river-bridge-reopens-amid-sloganeering-bjp-tmc-high-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/balason-river-bridge-reopens-amid-sloganeering-bjp-tmc-high-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Balason river bridge reopens amid sloganeering, BJP-TMC high drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics took the centre stage at the reopening of the Balason river bridge on northwest Siliguri on Friday as rival Trinamul and BJP leaders and supporters sought credit for the installation of the Bailey bridge that facilitated the resumption of traffic along the route.<\/p>\n<p>The drama unfolded at the site as Darjeeling DM S. Ponnambalam reached the bridge with senior policemen to formally reopen it. <\/p>\n<p>A number of Trinamul leaders and hundreds of party supporters reached the spot. So did a group of BJP supporters led by Anandamoy Barman, the BJP MLA of Matigara- Naxalbari, the Assembly constituency in Darjeeling district where the bridge is located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics took the centre stage at the reopening of the Balason river bridge on northwest Siliguri on Friday as rival Trinamul and BJP leaders and supporters sought credit for the installation of the Bailey bridge that facilitated the resumption of traffic along the route. The drama unfolded at the site as Darjeeling DM S. Ponnambalam reached the bridge with senior policemen to formally reopen it. A number of Trinamul leaders and hundreds of party supporters reached the spot. So did a group of BJP supporters led by Anandamoy Barman, the BJP MLA of Matigara- Naxalbari, the Assembly constituency in Darjeeling [&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":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454363","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=454363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}