{"id":185023,"date":"2022-02-24T00:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T18:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=185023"},"modified":"2022-02-24T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T18:51:42","slug":"no-ex-cm-in-assam-to-get-govt-accommodation-full-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/24\/no-ex-cm-in-assam-to-get-govt-accommodation-full-security\/","title":{"rendered":"No ex-CM in Assam to get govt accommodation, full security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Feb 23 (PTI) The Assam government on Wednesday announced that it has withdrawn accommodation facility and security cover offered to former chief ministers prospectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the present living ex-chief ministers of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal and Prafulla Kumar Mahanta will continue to avail the facilities. The new system will start with Himanta Biswa Sarma, the incumbent CM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Government of Assam revoked the facilities of accommodation and full security coverage provided to ex-chief ministers of Assam prospectively in pursuance of the decision taken by the Cabinet in its meeting held on January 1, 2022,&#8221; an official release said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not clear, however, what the government meant by &#8220;full security&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was decided at that Cabinet meeting that no former chief minister would be allotted government accommodation or security coverage equal to the incumbent CM anymore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the meeting, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said that the decision will come into force &#8220;once I step down and will follow my successors&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Feb 23 (PTI) The Assam government on Wednesday announced that it has withdrawn accommodation facility and security cover offered to former chief ministers prospectively. However, the present living ex-chief ministers of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal and Prafulla Kumar Mahanta will continue to avail the facilities. The new system will start with Himanta Biswa Sarma, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}