{"id":601647,"date":"2023-09-04T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T05:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=601647"},"modified":"2023-09-04T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:28:22","slug":"infra-projects-granted-to-close-friends-of-bjp-congress-targets-government-over-cag-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/infra-projects-granted-to-close-friends-of-bjp-congress-targets-government-over-cag-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Infra projects granted to \u2018close friends\u2019 of BJP: Congress targets government over CAG report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Sunday targeted the Modi Government over a recent CAG report on Bharatmala project, alleging that infrastructure projects have been granted to \u201cclose friends\u201d and donors of the BJP and asserted that only a JPC probe can unravel the truth.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Congress General Secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said the Bharatmala Pariyojana is aimed at developing 35,000 km of national highways to make freight movement across the country more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet, the most remarkable feature of the project has been the efficiency with which costs have been inflated and projects handed over to the Prime Minister\u2019s close friends and his party\u2019s electoral bond donors,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Sunday targeted the Modi Government over a recent CAG report on Bharatmala project, alleging that infrastructure projects have been granted to \u201cclose friends\u201d and donors of the BJP and asserted that only a JPC probe can unravel the truth. In a statement, Congress General Secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said the Bharatmala Pariyojana is aimed at developing 35,000 km of national highways to make freight movement across the country more efficient. \u201cYet, the most remarkable feature of the project has been the efficiency with which costs have been inflated and projects handed over to the Prime Minister\u2019s close [&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":[130,225,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601647","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=601647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}