{"id":553925,"date":"2023-02-08T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T03:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=553925"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:27:29","slug":"aap-has-pushed-back-punjab-into-age-of-darkness-sukhbir-singh-badal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aap-has-pushed-back-punjab-into-age-of-darkness-sukhbir-singh-badal\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP has pushed back Punjab into age of darkness: Sukhbir Singh Badal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday accused the AAP government in Punjab of pushing the state back into the &#8220;age of darkness by bankrupting&#8221; its power utility and refusing to give incentives to the industrial sector.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference here, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party government had not generated a single unit of power during its tenure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is simultaneously not paying subsidy due to PSPCL (Punjab State Power Corporation Limited) which is bankrupting the power utility,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Noting that part of the power needs of the state were being served by two thermal plants in Rajpura and Talwandi Sabo, he said, &#8220;These thermal plants supply power to the state at Rs 2.80 per unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday accused the AAP government in Punjab of pushing the state back into the &#8220;age of darkness by bankrupting&#8221; its power utility and refusing to give incentives to the industrial sector. Addressing a press conference here, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party government had not generated a single unit of power during its tenure. &#8220;It is simultaneously not paying subsidy due to PSPCL (Punjab State Power Corporation Limited) which is bankrupting the power utility,&#8221; he said. Noting that part of the power needs of the state were being [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553925","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=553925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}