{"id":303109,"date":"2018-09-23T04:52:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T04:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303109"},"modified":"2018-09-23T04:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T04:52:56","slug":"rajasthan-bjp-mla-manvendra-singh-quits-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-bjp-mla-manvendra-singh-quits-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: BJP MLA Manvendra Singh Quits BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303110 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180923-101928__01-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180923-101928__01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180923-101928__01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180923-101928__01-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180923-101928__01-696x694.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180923-101928__01-421x420.jpg 421w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180923-101928__01.jpg 912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Veteran BJP leader\u00a0Jaswant Singh\u2019s son BJP MLA from Sheo constituency in Rajasthan, Manvendra Singh on Saturday quit the party while addressing a rally in poll-bound Rajasthan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cKamal ka phool humari badi bhool (the lotus flower was my mistake),\u201d\u00a0Manvendra Singh said while addressing a mammoth &#8220;Swabhimaan Rally&#8221; in Pachpadra of\u00a0Barmer\u00a0district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The differences between Manvendra and the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u00a0surfaced in 2014 when his father\u00a0Jaswant Singh\u00a0was denied Lok Sabha ticket from\u00a0Barmer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the same year, Manvendra Singh was suspended by the party\u2019s primary membership for campaigning for his father (who contested as an independent) as against the party\u2019s official candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh said that he had been maintaining silence for the last four-and-a-half years obeying senior leaders of the party. But, now he has lost all his patience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Manvendra Singh, however has not yet disclosed the course his political career will take from here on but announced that he will contest the 2019\u00a0Lok Sabha\u00a0elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The speculations are rife that he might join the\u00a0Congress\u00a0party soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajasthan is scheduled to go for polls later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran BJP leader\u00a0Jaswant Singh\u2019s son BJP MLA from Sheo constituency in Rajasthan, Manvendra Singh on Saturday quit the party while addressing a rally in poll-bound Rajasthan.\u00a0 \u201cKamal ka phool humari badi bhool (the lotus flower was my mistake),\u201d\u00a0Manvendra Singh said while addressing a mammoth &#8220;Swabhimaan Rally&#8221; in Pachpadra of\u00a0Barmer\u00a0district. The differences between Manvendra and the\u00a0Bharatiya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":303110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[453,5188,5189,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303109"}],"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=303109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303111,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303109\/revisions\/303111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}