{"id":306850,"date":"2018-12-11T04:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306850"},"modified":"2018-12-11T05:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T05:04:46","slug":"former-left-front-minister-abdus-sattar-joins-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-left-front-minister-abdus-sattar-joins-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Left Front minister Abdus Sattar 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-306854 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wb-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/wb-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/wb-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/wb.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former CPI(M) leader and west Bengal minister Abdus Sattar on Monday joined the Congress, stating it is the only party which can fight against the \u201ccommunal onslaught\u201d of the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sattar, who served as\u00a0Minister\u00a0of State for Minorities Development during the Left Front regime, was welcomed into the\u00a0Congress\u00a0by\u00a0party\u2019s state president Somen Mitra and in-charge of Bengal\u00a0Gaurav Gogoi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sattar said that he has not renewed CPI(M) membership since 2017 and stayed away from politics for the last two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI joined the Congress, as I became convinced it is the only party which can fight against the communal onslaught of the BJP,\u201d Sattar told to reporters at the state\u00a0Congress\u00a0headquarters Bidhan Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CPI(M) leader and west Bengal minister Abdus Sattar on Monday joined the Congress, stating it is the only party which can fight against the \u201ccommunal onslaught\u201d of the BJP. Sattar, who served as\u00a0Minister\u00a0of State for Minorities Development during the Left Front regime, was welcomed into the\u00a0Congress\u00a0by\u00a0party\u2019s state president Somen Mitra and in-charge of Bengal\u00a0Gaurav [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[10207,236,10209,10208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306850"}],"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=306850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306855,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306850\/revisions\/306855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}