{"id":215426,"date":"2017-03-11T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T21:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/punjab-poll-promises-war-on-drugs-farm-loan-waiver-business-standard.php"},"modified":"2017-03-11T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T21:59:53","slug":"punjab-poll-promises-war-on-drugs-farm-loan-waiver-business-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/war-on-drugs\/punjab-poll-promises-war-on-drugs-farm-loan-waiver-business-standard.php","title":{"rendered":"Punjab poll promises: War on drugs, farm loan waiver &#8211; Business Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p>Among the first things that the Congress chief ministerial    candidate in Punjab, Amarinder Singh, has promised to do after he    assumes power is to tackle the drug menace    by choking the supply of such intoxicants in four weeks.        Anybody involved in the drug scourge    will be dealt in accordance with law, howsoever powerful he may    be. I have said within four weeks we will tackle this drugs problem,\" Singh told a crowded press    conference in Chandigarh on Saturday.        The increasing number of drug-abuse cases has been one of the    poll planks of both the Congress    and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The parties alleged that the    drug menace and cases of drug abuse had seen a huge increase during the    Akali regime under its patronage.    <\/p><p>    That apart, incidents of sacrilege, which hit several parts of    the state, would also be investigated, he said.  <\/p><p>    Singh said his party had committed itself to providing good    governance, besides focusing on health and education.  <\/p><p>    The Congress manifesto included the waiver of farm loans, a    promise the new government will find tough to keep.  <\/p><p>    A farm debt waiver will have massive financial implications,    particularly for an agrarian state like Punjab, and it will    impact financial discipline, but given that in the last two    years there has been a drought in North India, the new state    government should consider such a relief but should keep it    limited to small and marginal farmers, that is those who own    less than two hectares, PK Joshi, South Asia director,    International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), told    Business Standard.  <\/p><p>    Sanjeeb Mukherjee  <\/p><p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/wap\/images\/bs_logo_amp.png\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bsmedia.business-standard.com\/_media\/bs\/wap\/images\/bs_logo_amp.png<\/a>      177 22    <\/p><p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/c99da07de2go_amp.png-150x19.png\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>Link: <\/p><p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/elections\/punjab-assembly-elections-2017\/punjab-election-results-2017-war-on-drugs-farm-loan-waiver-are-top-promises-117031200025_1.html\" title=\"Punjab poll promises: War on drugs, farm loan waiver - Business Standard\">Punjab poll promises: War on drugs, farm loan waiver - Business Standard<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Among the first things that the Congress chief ministerial candidate in Punjab, Amarinder Singh, has promised to do after he assumes power is to tackle the drug menace by choking the supply of such intoxicants in four weeks. Anybody involved in the drug scourge will be dealt in accordance with law, howsoever powerful he may be. I have said within four weeks we will tackle this drugs problem,\" Singh told a crowded press conference in Chandigarh on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/war-on-drugs\/punjab-poll-promises-war-on-drugs-farm-loan-waiver-business-standard.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[431672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-drugs"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}