{"id":286701,"date":"2018-05-14T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T13:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286701"},"modified":"2018-05-14T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T13:59:27","slug":"three-punjab-congress-mlas-quit-vidhan-sabha-panels-infighting-intensifies-in-punjab-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/three-punjab-congress-mlas-quit-vidhan-sabha-panels-infighting-intensifies-in-punjab-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Punjab Congress MLAs Quit Vidhan Sabha Panels, Infighting Intensifies In Punjab Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior Congress MLAs Rakesh Pandey of Ludhiana (North), Amrik Singh Dhillon of Samrala and Randeep Singh Nabha of Amloh on Monday tendered their resignations from Vidhan Sabha panels in protest against being ignored in the recent Punjab cabinet expansion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They submitted their resignations to\u00a0Punjab\u00a0Assembly\u00a0Speaker\u00a0Rana K P Singh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress MLA Rakesh Pandey said, We have tendered our resignations from the\u00a0Vidhan Sabha committee\u00a0to the\u00a0Speaker\u00a0here today, &#8220;My seniority has been ignored when the cabinet expansion took place. I am a six-time MLA and have worked for the party,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MLA Amrik Singh Dhillon of Samrala, said, &#8220;What will we do with the chairmanship (of Vidhan Sabha Committee).&#8221; &#8220;The CM promised to consider seniority in giving ministerial berths. But one-time and two time MLAs have been chosen over us,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They said they would meet Congress president Rahul Gandhi to register their protest and decide the future course of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress MLAs Rakesh Pandey of Ludhiana (North), Amrik Singh Dhillon of Samrala and Randeep Singh Nabha of Amloh on Monday tendered their resignations from Vidhan Sabha panels in protest against being ignored in the recent Punjab cabinet expansion. They submitted their resignations to\u00a0Punjab\u00a0Assembly\u00a0Speaker\u00a0Rana K P Singh. Congress MLA Rakesh Pandey said, We have tendered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":286702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[1507,1508,1124,279,1509,1510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286701"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}