{"id":657822,"date":"2026-01-20T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657822"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:07:18","slug":"bjp-congress-trade-barbs-over-bengaluru-metro-fare-hike-plan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bjp-congress-trade-barbs-over-bengaluru-metro-fare-hike-plan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP &amp; Congress trade barbs over Bengaluru Metro fare hike plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Even as Bengalureans worry that a proposed 5% hike in Namma Metro fares in Feb could further pinch household budgets, the issue has snowballed into a full-blown political slugfest between the ruling Congress and the opposition BJP, with both sides trading blame and absolving themselves of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The debate, which comes in the run-up to the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) elections, got high decibel after Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya attacked the state govt and Namma Metro operator BMRCL, accusing them of allowing &#8220;fare anomalies&#8221; and demanding the constitution of a new fare fixation committee (FFC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Even as Bengalureans worry that a proposed 5% hike in Namma Metro fares in Feb could further pinch household budgets, the issue has snowballed into a full-blown political slugfest between the ruling Congress and the opposition BJP, with both sides trading blame and absolving themselves of responsibility. The debate, which comes in the run-up to the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) elections, got high decibel after Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya attacked the state govt and Namma Metro operator BMRCL, accusing them of allowing &#8220;fare anomalies&#8221; and demanding the constitution of a new fare fixation committee (FFC).<\/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":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657822","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=657822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}