{"id":306341,"date":"2018-11-30T10:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T10:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306341"},"modified":"2018-11-30T10:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T10:01:53","slug":"mohammad-azharuddin-appointed-as-working-president-of-telangana-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mohammad-azharuddin-appointed-as-working-president-of-telangana-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Azharuddin appointed as working president of Telangana 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-306342 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mohammad-azharuddin-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mohammad-azharuddin-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mohammad-azharuddin-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mohammad-azharuddin-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mohammad-azharuddin-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mohammad-azharuddin-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mohammad-azharuddin-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mohammad-azharuddin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former India cricket captain and Congress party MP, Mohammad Azharuddin has been appointed as the working president of the party in Telangana, which goes to polls on December 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reports said, the former India cricket captain hailing from Hyderabad was extremely unhappy with the treatment meted out to him by the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Azharuddin was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009 from Moradabad in\u00a0Uttar Pradesh\u00a0but lost the 2014 polls from Rajasthan&#8217;s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In other announcements, BM Vinod Kumar and Jaffer Javed were appointed as the state unit\u2019s vice-presidents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India cricket captain and Congress party MP, Mohammad Azharuddin has been appointed as the working president of the party in Telangana, which goes to polls on December 7. Reports said, the former India cricket captain hailing from Hyderabad was extremely unhappy with the treatment meted out to him by the party. Azharuddin was elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2921],"tags":[236,9380,2226,10016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306341"}],"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=306341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306343,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306341\/revisions\/306343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}