{"id":543344,"date":"2022-12-15T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=543344"},"modified":"2022-12-15T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T06:45:53","slug":"seeking-electricity-uris-panchayat-representatives-stage-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/seeking-electricity-uris-panchayat-representatives-stage-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking electricity, Uri\u2019s panchayat representatives\u2019 stage hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking electricity and other civic facilities, dozens of panchayat representatives have been staging a hunger strike for three days in north Kashmir\u2019s border town, Uri.<\/p>\n<p>The Panchayati Raj Institutions, including district development council (DDC) and block development council members, sarpanches and other representatives are holding peaceful protest close to the national highway in Boniyar town. \u201cWe are not provided electricity, and charged exorbitantly. When officials failed to redress our demands we were forced to hold a sit-in and hunger strike,\u201d said Bilal Mir, an independent block development council member from Boniyar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 100 PRI\u2019s from Uri tehsil are participating in our protest. If our genuine demands are not fulfilled we will start marching towards New Delhi wand will try to meet the Prime Minister,\u201d he said, adding that representatives of all parties are keen to participate in the protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking electricity and other civic facilities, dozens of panchayat representatives have been staging a hunger strike for three days in north Kashmir\u2019s border town, Uri. The Panchayati Raj Institutions, including district development council (DDC) and block development council members, sarpanches and other representatives are holding peaceful protest close to the national highway in Boniyar town. \u201cWe are not provided electricity, and charged exorbitantly. When officials failed to redress our demands we were forced to hold a sit-in and hunger strike,\u201d said Bilal Mir, an independent block development council member from Boniyar. \u201cOver 100 PRI\u2019s from Uri tehsil are participating in [&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-543344","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\/543344","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=543344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}