{"id":576838,"date":"2023-05-16T09:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T04:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=576838"},"modified":"2023-05-16T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T04:40:25","slug":"collect-from-congress-karnataka-villagers-refusal-to-pay-bill-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/collect-from-congress-karnataka-villagers-refusal-to-pay-bill-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Collect from Congress: Karnataka villagers&#8217; refusal to pay bill goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a group of villagers in this district on Monday allegedly refusing to pay their electricity bill citing the pre-poll promise of the Congress to give 200 units for free has gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>Among the five &#8216;guarantees&#8217; that the party announced is the offer of 200 units of power a month to every household.<\/p>\n<p>During campaigning for the May 10 Assembly elections in Karnataka, the Congress repeatedly said it would give a stamp of approval for these &#8216;guarantees&#8217; in the maiden cabinet meeting on the first day of it assuming power in the State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won&#8217;t pay,&#8221; a villager was heard telling electricity bill collector Gopi in the purported video where people are seen sitting on a platform under a peepal tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a group of villagers in this district on Monday allegedly refusing to pay their electricity bill citing the pre-poll promise of the Congress to give 200 units for free has gone viral. Among the five &#8216;guarantees&#8217; that the party announced is the offer of 200 units of power a month to every household. During campaigning for the May 10 Assembly elections in Karnataka, the Congress repeatedly said it would give a stamp of approval for these &#8216;guarantees&#8217; in the maiden cabinet meeting on the first day of it assuming power in the State. &#8220;We won&#8217;t pay,&#8221; a [&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-576838","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\/576838","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=576838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}