{"id":302896,"date":"2018-09-18T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T06:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302896"},"modified":"2018-09-18T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T06:06:16","slug":"congress-denies-reports-of-maken-resigning-as-delhi-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-denies-reports-of-maken-resigning-as-delhi-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress denies reports of Maken resigning as Delhi Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-denies-reports-of-maken-resigning-as-delhi-chief\/maken\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302897\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302897 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/maken-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/maken-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/maken-479x420.jpg 479w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/maken.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a>The Congress on Tuesday denied reports that Delhi Congress committee chief Ajay Maken has resigned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party said in a statement that he has some health issues and has gone for a check-up and will be back soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Party incharge of Delhi affairs PC Chacko said, \u201cMaken has some health problem and he has gone for a check-up. He will be back next week.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chacko further said, once Maken is back in India, they will like to design a working -arrangement so that the Congress leader can continue to be the Delhi party president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maken, who replaced Arvinder Singh Lovely as Delhi Congress chief three years ago, had resigned earlier when the party did not perform well in civic polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the party leadership had asked him to stay in his post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maken is currently in abroad for treatment. He has been a two-times MP and three times MLA. Maken was a union minister when the Congress was in power at the centre\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Tuesday denied reports that Delhi Congress committee chief Ajay Maken has resigned. The party said in a statement that he has some health issues and has gone for a check-up and will be back soon. Party incharge of Delhi affairs PC Chacko said, \u201cMaken has some health problem and he has gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[577,236,429,5123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302896"}],"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=302896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302899,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302896\/revisions\/302899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}