{"id":307749,"date":"2019-01-04T01:23:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307749"},"modified":"2019-01-04T01:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:23:37","slug":"advocate-hs-phoolka-resigns-from-aap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/advocate-hs-phoolka-resigns-from-aap\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocate HS Phoolka resigns from AAP"},"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=\"size-medium wp-image-307750 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190104-065219__01-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190104-065219__01-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190104-065219__01-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190104-065219__01-696x555.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190104-065219__01-527x420.jpg 527w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190104-065219__01.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Advocate HS Phoolka on Thursday resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He made the announcement on Twitter where he said that he had submitted his resignation letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who asked him to reconsider the decision. &#8220;But I insisted,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI have resigned from AAP &amp; handed over resignation to Kejriwal ji today. Though he asked me not to resign but I insisted,\u201d Phoolka tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Phoolka said that he would hold a press conference on Friday and explain the reasons for leaving the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He tweeted on Thursday, \u201cWill be briefing media tomorrow at 4pm at Press Club, Raisina Rd, New Delhi to explain the Reason of leaving AAP &amp; my further plans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Phoolka had joined AAP\u2009in January 2014 and contested in the Lok Sabha elections that year from Ludhiana on a party ticket but lost to a Congress candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He had earlier resigned as a legislator from the Punjab Aassembly last year over the state government&#8217;s failure to take action against former chief minister Prakash Singh Badal in a sacrilege case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocate HS Phoolka on Thursday resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He made the announcement on Twitter where he said that he had submitted his resignation letter to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who asked him to reconsider the decision. &#8220;But I insisted,&#8221; he said. \u201cI have resigned from AAP &amp; handed over resignation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":307750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[4435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307749"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307751,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307749\/revisions\/307751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}