{"id":301516,"date":"2018-08-18T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301516"},"modified":"2018-08-18T20:35:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:35:28","slug":"rahul-gandhi-revokes-suspension-of-mani-shankar-aiyar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-revokes-suspension-of-mani-shankar-aiyar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi revokes suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyar"},"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-301518 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MS-aiyar-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/MS-aiyar-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/MS-aiyar-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/MS-aiyar-696x451.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/MS-aiyar-648x420.jpg 648w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/MS-aiyar.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/>Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday revoked the suspension of former Rajya Sabha MP and senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar from party&#8217;s primary membership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In an official release, AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot said the \u201cCongress president has approved the recommendation of the Central Disciplinary Committee of AICC for revocation of suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyar from the primary membership of the Congress party with immediate effect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301517 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/AICC-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/AICC-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/AICC-696x830.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/AICC-352x420.jpg 352w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/AICC.jpg 725w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Aiyar was suspended in December last year from the party after he had reportedly called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a &#8220;neech aadmi&#8221; (vile man).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Senior Congress leader expressed regret for his comments later.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday revoked the suspension of former Rajya Sabha MP and senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar from party&#8217;s primary membership. In an official release, AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot said the \u201cCongress president has approved the recommendation of the Central Disciplinary Committee of AICC for revocation of suspension of Mani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[2304,1578,236,1544,4214,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301516"}],"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=301516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301519,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301516\/revisions\/301519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}