{"id":305790,"date":"2018-11-19T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305790"},"modified":"2018-11-19T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T08:00:16","slug":"denied-ticket-rajasthan-bjp-mla-gyan-dev-ahuja-quits-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/denied-ticket-rajasthan-bjp-mla-gyan-dev-ahuja-quits-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Denied ticket, Rajasthan BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja quits party"},"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=\" wp-image-305791 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gyan-dev-ahuja-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/gyan-dev-ahuja-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/gyan-dev-ahuja-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/gyan-dev-ahuja-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/gyan-dev-ahuja-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/gyan-dev-ahuja.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A sitting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Rajasthan, Gyan Dev Ahuja quit the party after being denied a ticket for the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahuja, the lawmaker from Ramgarh said he will contest as an Independent candidate from Sanganer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;My name was dropped by the party without taking me into confidence. I was not even told about the reason why my name was dropped. After pressure from my family members and supporters, I resigned from the party. Now I will contest the elections from the Sanganer seat,&#8221; Ahuja said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I had demanded a ticket from Sanganer after the other candidate was given the ticket from Ramgarh, but the party refused me. Therefore, I decided to contest as an independent candidate,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is the same leader who hit headlines in 2016, when he said, &#8220;thousands of condoms were found daily at the Jawaharlal\u00a0Nehru University (JNU) campus in New Delhi\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sitting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Rajasthan, Gyan Dev Ahuja quit the party after being denied a ticket for the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly elections. Ahuja, the lawmaker from Ramgarh said he will contest as an Independent candidate from Sanganer. &#8220;My name was dropped by the party without taking me into confidence. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[9765,1478,9766],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305790"}],"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=305790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305794,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305790\/revisions\/305794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}