{"id":482315,"date":"2022-04-05T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482315"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T05:35:10","slug":"riding-a-horse-to-protest-against-petrol-price-hike-costs-powerman-his-job-in-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/riding-a-horse-to-protest-against-petrol-price-hike-costs-powerman-his-job-in-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding a horse to protest against petrol price hike costs \u2018powerman\u2019 his job in Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A publicity stunt to protest against the rise in petrol prices has cost a rural revenue franchisee his job in Bihar\u2019s Sheohar district, about 125 km north of Patna, power officials said.<\/p>\n<p>In a video that has turned viral, Abhijit Tiwari, a rural revenue franchisee, tasked with collection of energy bills from consumers, is seen riding a horse in rural Sheohar to collect payment against energy bills as petrol prices head north.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTiwari now says that he was instigated by a so-called local journalist to act in the manner he did and say on camera that he preferred riding a horse than using his motorbike for collection of energy bills as petrol had become dear,\u201d said Shrawan Thakur, electrical executive engineer of Sheohar, North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited (NBPDCL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A publicity stunt to protest against the rise in petrol prices has cost a rural revenue franchisee his job in Bihar\u2019s Sheohar district, about 125 km north of Patna, power officials said. In a video that has turned viral, Abhijit Tiwari, a rural revenue franchisee, tasked with collection of energy bills from consumers, is seen riding a horse in rural Sheohar to collect payment against energy bills as petrol prices head north. \u201cTiwari now says that he was instigated by a so-called local journalist to act in the manner he did and say on camera that he preferred riding a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-482315","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\/482315","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}