{"id":303371,"date":"2018-09-28T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303371"},"modified":"2018-09-28T08:26:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T08:26:26","slug":"senior-ncp-leader-tariq-anwar-quits-party-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/senior-ncp-leader-tariq-anwar-quits-party-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior NCP Leader Tariq Anwar quits party, Lok Sabha"},"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\/senior-ncp-leader-tariq-anwar-quits-party-lok-sabha\/tariq-anwar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303372\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303372 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/tariq-anwar-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tariq-anwar-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tariq-anwar-459x420.jpg 459w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/tariq-anwar.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) General Secretary Tariq Anwar on Friday resigned from the party and Parliament following party chief Sharad Pawar&#8217;s &#8220;defence&#8221; of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Rafale deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am resigning from all posts in the party, of which I was a founding member, and also giving up my membership of Parliament,\u201d Anwar said in his Lok Sabha constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Party leader Nawab Malik and NCP Spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Majeed Memon confirmed Tariq Anwar&#8217;s resignation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Anwar was a Lok Sabha member from Katihar in Bihar. He was a prominent NCP face in Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tariq Anwar was hurt by Sharad Pawar\u2019s interview to Marathi news channel defending PM Modi in Rafale Deal. Pawar raised questions over Congress\u2019s demand asking the government to divulge the details of the Rafale deal.\u00a0 However, he said that the government shouldn\u2019t have a problem in revealing the price of the fighter jets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 1990s A former president of Congress&#8217; Bihar unit, Anwar along with Pawar and P A Sangma formed NCP, opposing Sonia Gandhi taking over as AICC president on grounds of her foreign origin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) General Secretary Tariq Anwar on Friday resigned from the party and Parliament following party chief Sharad Pawar&#8217;s &#8220;defence&#8221; of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Rafale deal. \u201cI am resigning from all posts in the party, of which I was a founding member, and also giving up my membership of Parliament,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1890,1892,5269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303371"}],"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=303371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303374,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303371\/revisions\/303374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}