{"id":568854,"date":"2023-04-10T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T06:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=568854"},"modified":"2023-04-10T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T06:37:13","slug":"coal-mining-auction-rival-parties-claim-credit-for-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-mining-auction-rival-parties-claim-credit-for-exemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal mining auction: Rival parties claim credit for exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Political parties in the state on Saturday vied with each other to grab credit for the announcement of Union coal minister Pralhad Joshi\u2019s announcement, exempting Tamil Nadu from auctioning coal mine blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Industries minister Thangam Thennarasu said it was the pressure by chief minister M K Stalin that led to the Centre\u2019s decision to exempt Tamil Nadu. \u201cImmediately, after the announcement of the coal mining auction, our chief minister wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to provide exemption for Tamil Nadu,\u201d said the minister. The chief minister had also directed DMK Parliamentary party leader T R Baalu to meet Pralhad Joshi and put forth Tamil Nadu\u2019s demand, said Thennarasu. \u201cIt is a victory for the chief minister,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: Political parties in the state on Saturday vied with each other to grab credit for the announcement of Union coal minister Pralhad Joshi\u2019s announcement, exempting Tamil Nadu from auctioning coal mine blocks. Industries minister Thangam Thennarasu said it was the pressure by chief minister M K Stalin that led to the Centre\u2019s decision to exempt Tamil Nadu. \u201cImmediately, after the announcement of the coal mining auction, our chief minister wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to provide exemption for Tamil Nadu,\u201d said the minister. The chief minister had also directed DMK Parliamentary party leader T [&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":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568854","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=568854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}