{"id":338686,"date":"2022-07-25T00:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338686"},"modified":"2022-07-25T06:43:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:13:32","slug":"delhi-congress-stages-protest-against-excise-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-congress-stages-protest-against-excise-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Congress stages protest against excise policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Congress on Monday said it staged a protest outside Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia&#8217;s residence here, demanding his resignation over alleged violation of rules and procedural lapses in the city government&#8217;s excise policy.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders and workers of the party gathered in Patparganj holding banners and raised slogans against Sisodia and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Delhi Congress had accused the ruling Aam Aadmi Party of being &#8220;knee-deep in corruption&#8221; and submitted a written complaint to Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana, seeking a probe into the liquor policy.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has recently recommended a CBI probe into the policy.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the inquiry was recommended on a basis of a report filed by the Delhi chief secretary, showing prima facie violations, including &#8220;deliberate and gross procedural lapses&#8221;, to provide post-tender &#8220;undue benefits to liquor licensees&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Congress on Monday said it staged a protest outside Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia&#8217;s residence here, demanding his resignation over alleged violation of rules and procedural lapses in the city government&#8217;s excise policy. Leaders and workers of the party gathered in Patparganj holding banners and raised slogans against Sisodia and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338686"}],"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=338686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338688,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338686\/revisions\/338688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}