{"id":301284,"date":"2018-08-09T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T07:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301284"},"modified":"2018-08-09T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T07:51:28","slug":"ndas-candidate-harivansh-narayan-singh-appointed-as-rajya-sabhas-deputy-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ndas-candidate-harivansh-narayan-singh-appointed-as-rajya-sabhas-deputy-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"NDA&#8217;s candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh appointed as Rajya Sabha&#8217;s deputy chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301285 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/harivansh-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/harivansh-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/harivansh-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/harivansh.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/>NDA\u2019s candidate, Harivansh Narayan Singh of the JD(U), was elected Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman on August 9 defeating B K Hariprasad, opposition candidate, and senior Congress leader, by winning 125 votes in the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">B K Hariprasad received 105 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu started the process of the voting by calling for the division of votes in the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the voting, Singh was escorted to his seat and was congratulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ghulam Nabi Azad on behalf of the Congress and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi while congratulating Singh said, \u201cHe had earlier run a column on how the parliamentarians of the country should work. Little did he know that he will one day be the Deputy Chairperson of the House. We all will benefit from his experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The post of RS Deputy Chairman was lying vacant since the retirement of Pallath Joseph Kurien on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1979472685\"><span class=\"aQJ\">July 1<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDA\u2019s candidate, Harivansh Narayan Singh of the JD(U), was elected Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman on August 9 defeating B K Hariprasad, opposition candidate, and senior Congress leader, by winning 125 votes in the House. B K Hariprasad received 105 votes. Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu started the process of the voting by calling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4079,3531,895,96,4080],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301284"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301286,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301284\/revisions\/301286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}