{"id":285268,"date":"2018-02-17T22:25:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285268"},"modified":"2018-02-17T22:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:55:38","slug":"congress-feels-lovely-as-arvinder-singh-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-feels-lovely-as-arvinder-singh-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress feels lovely as\u00a0Arvinder\u00a0Singh returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">BJP leader Arvin<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-285269 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Arvinder-Singh-Lovely-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Arvinder Singh Lovely\" width=\"364\" height=\"204\" data-id=\"285269\" \/>der Singh Lovely rejoins Congress after he resigned in April 2017 citing reason &#8220;ideologically was a misfit in the BJP party.\u201d\u00a0Known for being a loyalist once to\u00a0former Delhi CM Sheila Dixit, he received a warm welcome in the presence Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Feeling lovely of Singh&#8217;s return, Maken told to media, &#8220;We are happy to announce that Lovely has joined Congress back. We welcome him to the party again. Congress will be strengthened by his presence again and we will serve the people of Delhi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Lovely is a four-time MLA, first elected to the Delhi Legislative Assembly in 1998.\u00a0\u00a0He took an exit of the Congress to join BJP in April 2017 ahead of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections. He hit out at Sheila calling a\u00a0\u201cburden\u00a0on the Congress\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0and that Maken loves his\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0comfort over hard work\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0soon after he joined BJP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP leader Arvinder Singh Lovely rejoins Congress after he resigned in April 2017 citing reason &#8220;ideologically was a misfit in the BJP party.\u201d\u00a0Known for being a loyalist once to\u00a0former Delhi CM Sheila Dixit, he received a warm welcome in the presence Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken. Feeling lovely of Singh&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[577,453,578,236,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}