{"id":343470,"date":"2023-05-08T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=343470"},"modified":"2023-05-12T03:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T09:26:59","slug":"amit-shahs-visit-to-assam-postponed-due-to-manipur-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/amit-shahs-visit-to-assam-postponed-due-to-manipur-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Amit Shah&#8217;s visit to Assam postponed due to Manipur violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Amit-Shah-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Amit-Shah-1.jpg 730w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Amit-Shah-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/05\/Amit-Shah-1-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Guwahati- In the wake of Manipur violence, Union Home Minister Amit Shah&#8217;s visit to Assam scheduled on May 11 has been postponed, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shah was supposed to attend a grand celebration of two years of completion of the Sarma-led government in Assam on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the visit has been rescheduled to May 26, said Sarma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing media persons here, he said, &#8220;Union Home Minister called me up in the morning and informed about the change in his schedule due to ongoing violence in Manipur.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the run-up to the 2021 Assam Assembly election, Sarma promised that if BJP returns to power in the state, 1 lakh jobs would be given to unemployed youths of the state within a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the state government has already provided around 50, 000 jobs in the last two years, the target of 1 lakh jobs is yet to be completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarma said that recruitment procedures for another 45, 000 posts are completed and the appointment letters will be distributed by Amit Shah on May 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati- In the wake of Manipur violence, Union Home Minister Amit Shah&#8217;s visit to Assam scheduled on May 11 has been postponed, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. Shah was supposed to attend a grand celebration of two years of completion of the Sarma-led government in Assam on Thursday. However, the visit has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":343471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15719,16445,16679],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343470"}],"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=343470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343526,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343470\/revisions\/343526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/343471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}