{"id":106873,"date":"2025-10-24T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=106873"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:32:10","slug":"bjp-government-shocks-goans-with-20-hike-in-electricity-rates-a-cruel-attack-on-common-people-amarnath-panjikar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=106873","title":{"rendered":"BJP GOVERNMENT SHOCKS GOANS WITH 20% HIKE IN ELECTRICITY RATES \u2013 A CRUEL ATTACK ON COMMON PEOPLE!:-Amarnath Panjikar\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Goa Khabar:The Goa Pradesh Congress Committee strongly condemns the anti-people decision of the BJP Government to impose an additional 20% charge on electricity consumption from 5.00 PM to 9.00 AM. This is nothing short of daylight robbery on hardworking Goans, who are already burdened with skyrocketing prices, unemployment, and economic slowdown.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This move will directly hit households, students, small shopkeepers, and business establishments who depend on electricity during these peak hours. Instead of providing relief to citizens, the Sawant-led BJP Government has chosen to punish Goans for its own failures and inefficiency in managing the power sector.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106836\" src=\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/24.10.25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The BJP Government, which once promised \u201cSwayampurna Goa,\u201d has today made it \u201cSuffering Goa.\u201d From fuel prices to water tariffs, and now electricity \u2014 every essential need of Goans is being exploited for revenue generation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Congress Party demands that the Government immediately withdraw this draconian and unjust 20% hike, failing which there will be widespread protests across Goa. The BJP Government must stop treating Goans as revenue machines to fill its empty coffers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The people of Goa will not remain silent spectators. The Congress Party stands firmly with the people in this fight against BJP\u2019s exploitation and anti-common man policies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar:The Goa Pradesh Congress Committee strongly condemns the anti-people decision of the BJP Government to impose an additional 20% charge on electricity consumption from 5.00 PM to 9.00 AM. This is nothing short of daylight robbery on hardworking Goans, who are already burdened with skyrocketing prices, unemployment, and economic slowdown. This move will directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":106874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-106873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106875,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106873\/revisions\/106875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}