{"id":86246,"date":"2022-04-23T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T05:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=86246"},"modified":"2022-04-23T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T05:47:22","slug":"punjab-185-vips-lose-security-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/punjab-185-vips-lose-security-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab: 185 VIPs lose security cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After coming into power in Punjab, the AAP government had ordered the withdrawal of security cover of 122 former ministers and MLAs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Punjab government on Friday withdrew security cover from around 185 more police protectees &#8211; including former ministers, ex-MLAs, and SGPC members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These protectees, who were assigned up to four gunmen, include former Akali ministers Surjit Singh Rakhra, Sucha Singh Chhotepur, Bibi Jagir Kaur and Tota Singh, former Congress in-charge for Himachal Pradesh Rajiv Shukla and former Akal Takht <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large number of policemen have been freed by this order, an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Withdrawing security cover from former ministers and MLAs is a way for the AAP government to show its commitment to democracy and transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After coming into power in Punjab, the AAP government had ordered the withdrawal of security cover of 122 former ministers and MLAs. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40,41],"class_list":["post-86246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab-news","tag-punjab","tag-vip-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86248,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86246\/revisions\/86248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}