{"id":28913,"date":"2018-04-23T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=28913"},"modified":"2018-04-23T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T11:56:43","slug":"day-on-cong-in-firefighting-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/day-on-cong-in-firefighting-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Day on, Cong in firefighting mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh,<br \/>\nAfter boycotting the swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, the disgruntled MLAs refused to budge as party leadership spent the day firefighting.<\/p>\n<p>In the light of Dalit sammelan in Delhi on Monday, which will be attended by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, the state leadership is working hard to ensure<\/p>\n<p>that the annoyed MLAs, particularly Dalits, do not pose any trouble. The party is also mobilising supporters for a national-level rally on April 29.<\/p>\n<p>PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar and Punjab affairs incharge Asha Kumari and Harish Chaudhary are camping here to address the grievances of the leaders. Amritsar<\/p>\n<p>West MLA Raj Kumar Verka and Deputy Speaker Ajiab Singh Bhatti met them on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Verka said he had already raised the issue of \u201cunder-representation\u201d to the Dalits in the Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Capt Sandeep Sandhu, political secretary to CM, has also been roped in to talk to the annoyed MLAs, including Sangat Singh Gilzian, Nathu Ram and Surinder<\/p>\n<p>Singh Dhiman. The three MLAs have already resigned from party posts over \u201cinadequate representation to the Dalits\u201d in the state Cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh, After boycotting the swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, the disgruntled MLAs refused to budge as party leadership spent the day firefighting. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28913","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=28913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28915,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28913\/revisions\/28915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}