{"id":322031,"date":"2020-04-11T06:07:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T06:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322031"},"modified":"2020-04-11T06:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T06:07:57","slug":"p-chidambaram-urges-cms-to-ask-pm-modi-to-remonetise-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/p-chidambaram-urges-cms-to-ask-pm-modi-to-remonetise-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"P Chidambaram urges CMs to ask PM Modi to \u2018remonetise poor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322032 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chidambaram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/chidambaram.jpg 456w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/chidambaram-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/chidambaram-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/>Former Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday urged the chief ministers to tell\u00a0the Prime Minister that the livelihood of the poor is equally important amid the coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress leader asked the chief ministers to demand for the immediate transfer of cash to the poor families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cChief Ministers &#8211; @capt_amarinder @ashokgehlot51 @bhupeshbaghel @VNarayanasami @uddhavthackeray @EPSTamilNadu should tell the Prime Minister today that just as LIVES are important LIVELIHOOD of the poor is important,\u201d Chidambaram tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCMs should demand that cash be transferred to every poor family immediately. \u201cRemonetise the poor\u201d should be their unanimous demand,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cRemonetising the poor will cost a maximum of Rs 65,000 crore &#8211; absolutely affordable and economically justified.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This comes on a day when\u00a0PM Modi will be interacting with the chief ministers of all states via video conference to discuss the coronavirus crisis in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the health ministry, India has so far reported 7,447 COVID-19 cases with 239 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday urged the chief ministers to tell\u00a0the Prime Minister that the livelihood of the poor is equally important amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Congress leader asked the chief ministers to demand for the immediate transfer of cash to the poor families. \u201cChief Ministers &#8211; @capt_amarinder @ashokgehlot51 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322033,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322031\/revisions\/322033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}