{"id":47530,"date":"2022-08-16T19:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T10:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/delhi-drinkers-left-dry-government-alcohol-policy-u-turn-india"},"modified":"2022-08-16T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T10:04:18","slug":"delhi-drinkers-left-dry-after-governments-alcohol-policy-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47530","title":{"rendered":"Delhi drinkers left dry after government\u2019s alcohol policy U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aam Aadmi party\u2019s decision to scrap plan to privatise sale of alcohol comes after pressure from rival BJP<\/p>\n<p>All over the Indian capital, the sound of metal shutters being pulled down at off-licences has left drinkers high and dry.<\/p>\n<p>The dry spell, expected to last until 1 September, is the result of Delhi\u2019s government scrapping a new alcohol policy that would have allowed private companies to operate off-licences.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/delhi-drinkers-left-dry-government-alcohol-policy-u-turn-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aam Aadmi party\u2019s decision to scrap plan to privatise sale of alcohol comes after pressure from rival BJPAll over the Indian capital, the sound of metal shutters being pulled down at off-licences has left drinkers high and dry.The dry spell, expected t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[969,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47531,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47530\/revisions\/47531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}