{"id":305518,"date":"2018-11-14T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305518"},"modified":"2018-11-14T08:17:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T08:17:26","slug":"rajasthan-bjp-mp-harish-meena-joins-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-bjp-mp-harish-meena-joins-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan: BJP MP Harish Meena joins Congress"},"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-305521 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Congress-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Congress-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Congress-469x420.jpg 469w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Congress.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a setback to the BJP in Rajasthan, ahead of the Rajasthan Assembly elections, party MP from Dausa, Harish Meena joined Congress on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meena, a former Director General of Police, had joined BJP in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was welcomed by State Congress chief Sachin pilot and former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, both of whom have decided to contest the state assembly elections scheduled to be held on December 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I am happy that Harish Meena has decided to join the Congress in such times. I welcome him in the Congress fold,&#8221; said Ashok Gehlot at a press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a setback to the BJP in Rajasthan, ahead of the Rajasthan Assembly elections, party MP from Dausa, Harish Meena joined Congress on Wednesday. Meena, a former Director General of Police, had joined BJP in 2014. He was welcomed by State Congress chief Sachin pilot and former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, both of whom have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[1578,453,236,9678,1478,2562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305518"}],"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=305518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305522,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305518\/revisions\/305522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}