{"id":241501,"date":"2024-06-02T00:52:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=241501"},"modified":"2024-06-02T00:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T19:22:41","slug":"hm-calling-up-dms-collectors-indulging-in-brazen-intimidation-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/06\/02\/hm-calling-up-dms-collectors-indulging-in-brazen-intimidation-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"HM calling up DMs, collectors, indulging in &#8216;brazen intimidation&#8217;: Cong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 1 Jun:<\/strong> The Congress on Saturday alleged that union Home Minister Amit Shah has been calling up district magistrates (DM) and collectors and indulging in &#8220;blatant and brazen&#8221; intimidation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">District magistrates and collectors are the returning officers of their respective districts during elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh claimed that Shah had already spoken with 150 DMs or collectors, and added that this shows &#8220;how desperate the BJP is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the seventh and last phase of the Lok Sabha elections concluding on Saturday, the results of the polls will be announced on 4 June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The outgoing home minister has been calling up DMs\/collectors. So far he has spoken to 150 of them. This is blatant and brazen intimidation, showing how desperate the BJP is,&#8221; he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0&#8220;Let it be very clear: the will of the people shall prevail, and on June 4th, Mr Modi, Mr Shah, and the BJP will exit, and the INDIA Janbandhan will be victorious,&#8221; he asserted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramesh said that officers should not get under any pressure and must uphold the Constitution. They are under watch, he added. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 1 Jun: The Congress on Saturday alleged that union Home Minister Amit Shah has been calling up district magistrates (DM) and collectors and indulging in &#8220;blatant and brazen&#8221; intimidation. District magistrates and collectors are the returning officers of their respective districts during elections. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh claimed that Shah had already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241501","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=241501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}