{"id":842,"date":"2026-09-09T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:59:27","slug":"congress-and-left-parties-plan-assembly-gherao-over-mmdr-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Congress and Left Parties Plan Assembly Gherao Over MMDR Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Congress and Left parties in Odisha<\/strong> have announced a major political protest against the MMDR Amendment Act, with plans to <strong>gherao the Odisha Assembly on September 29<\/strong>. Opposition leaders have expressed concerns about the impact of the legislation on the rights of mineral-producing states and the management of natural resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement has added another dimension to the political debate surrounding mining and mineral policy in Odisha. Jharsuguda, being one of the state&#8217;s important industrial and coal-producing districts, is directly connected to these larger discussions. Political parties are expected to use the issue to highlight questions concerning revenue sharing, state rights, employment and the interests of communities living near mining and industrial projects. The proposed Assembly protest could therefore become a significant political mobilisation involving opposition parties and their supporters from different parts of Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress and Left parties in Odisha have announced a major political protest against the MMDR Amendment Act, with plans to gherao the Odisha Assembly on September 29. Opposition leaders have expressed concerns about the impact of the legislation on the rights of mineral-producing states and the management of natural resources. The announcement has added another dimension to the political debate surrounding mining and mineral policy in Odisha. Jharsuguda, being one of the state&#8217;s important industrial and coal-producing districts, is directly connected to these larger discussions. Political parties are expected to use the issue to highlight questions concerning revenue sharing, state rights, employment and the interests of communities living near mining and industrial projects. The proposed Assembly protest could therefore become a significant political mobilisation involving opposition parties and their supporters from different parts of Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jharsugudadistrict.tribvel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}