{"id":2224,"date":"2017-08-16T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2017-08-16T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:55:30","slug":"sadcong-arm-twisting-councillors-to-turn-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sadcong-arm-twisting-councillors-to-turn-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"SAD:Cong arm-twisting councillors to turn rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2225\" src=\"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7-punjab-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7-punjab-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/7-punjab.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chandigarh, August 14<br \/>\nThe SAD today paraded its councillors from Zirakpur, Dera Bassi and Lalru who, it alleged, had been implicated in false cases to pressure them to join the Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The SAD-BJP has a majority in these three municipal councils. At least 12 councillors of the three local bodies were booked in the past fortnight and another six were being threatened, alleged Akali Dal general secretary Dr Daljit Singh Cheema, while addressing a press conference here this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Party MLA from Dera Bassi NK Sharma alleged: \u201cSince the Congress has no representative in these councils, it is resorting to such tactics. This is being done at the behest of a Congress leader from Dera Bassi who had lost the Assembly election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharma\u2019s two brothers \u2014 Yadwinder Sharma and Dharminder Sharma \u2013 too were booked when they backed their supporters in a protest against an illegal liquor vend in Zirakpur.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, August 14 The SAD today paraded its councillors from Zirakpur, Dera Bassi and Lalru who, it alleged, had been implicated in false cases to pressure them to join the Congress. The SAD-BJP has a majority in these three municipal councils. At least 12 councillors of the three local bodies were booked in the past [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}