{"id":538288,"date":"2022-11-24T11:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T05:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=538288"},"modified":"2022-11-24T13:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T07:50:38","slug":"maken-demands-cbi-probe-into-power-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/maken-demands-cbi-probe-into-power-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Maken demands CBI probe into power scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader and former Minister Ajay Maken on Tuesday alleged a Rs 5000 crore scam in the name of power subsidy to consumers by the AAP-led Arvind Kejriwal Government. He said that there are only 38 lakh power consumers in Delhi but the Kejriwal Government was providing power subsidy to 90 percent of domestic consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress leader has demanded a  CBI enquiry into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference, Maken said that the Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in his Budget speech had said 90 per cent of domestic consumers are getting free electricity, which is 53 lakh households out of total 58 lakh households in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader and former Minister Ajay Maken on Tuesday alleged a Rs 5000 crore scam in the name of power subsidy to consumers by the AAP-led Arvind Kejriwal Government. He said that there are only 38 lakh power consumers in Delhi but the Kejriwal Government was providing power subsidy to 90 percent of domestic consumers. The Congress leader has demanded a CBI enquiry into the matter. Addressing a press conference, Maken said that the Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in his Budget speech had said 90 per cent of domestic consumers are getting free electricity, which is 53 lakh [&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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538288","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=538288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}