{"id":2635,"date":"2020-06-26T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:22:20","slug":"fuel-price-protest-howrah-bridge-blocked-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Fuel price protest: Howrah bridge blocked | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"_2suu5 _24fIT clearfix  undefined undefined \">\n<div class=\"_3v5m2 image_wrapper \">\n<div class=\"_2gIK-\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-47529300,imgsize-110164,width-400,resizemode-4\/47529300.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Traffic came to a standstill on the Howrah-bound flank of Howrah bridge between 10.45am and 11.10am on Thursday after around 200 workers and supporters of Trinamool staged an agitation against the hike in prices of petrol and diesel. Led by state minister Arup Ray, the protesters burnt an effigy of Narendra Modi (in pic) and shouted slogans. Hundreds of commuters were stranded inside vehicles. An officer said, \u201cThe agitation continued for 25 minutes.\u201d tnn <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/fuel-price-protest-howrah-bridge-blocked\/articleshow\/76633062.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic came to a standstill on the Howrah-bound flank of Howrah bridge between 10.45am and 11.10am on Thursday after around 200 workers and supporters of Trinamool staged an agitation against the hike in prices of petrol and diesel. Led by state minister Arup Ray, the protesters burnt an effigy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1593210142_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}