{"id":307767,"date":"2019-01-04T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307767"},"modified":"2019-01-04T19:26:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:26:57","slug":"converting-anna-movement-in-to-political-party-was-wrong-hs-phoolka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/converting-anna-movement-in-to-political-party-was-wrong-hs-phoolka\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting Anna movement\u00a0in to\u00a0political party was wrong: HS Phoolka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/converting-anna-movement-in-to-political-party-was-wrong-hs-phoolka\/hs-phoolka-pci\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307768\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307768 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hs-phoolka-pci-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/hs-phoolka-pci-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/hs-phoolka-pci.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a>Senior lawyer HS Phoolka, who resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday, said the turning of Anna movement into a political party wasn&#8217;t a right decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing reporters at the Press Club of India in Delhi, Phoolka said the reason for his resignation is because he wants to re-launch an agitation similar to the Anna movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Phoolka stressed the need of this movement so that political parties don\u2019t take people and their issues lightly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Phoolka condemned the distribution of drugs during the last SGPC elections in Punjab and said that the SGPC being a religious body should be\u00a0free from the hands of politically motivated people.<\/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 he will launch a movement in Punjab against drug abuse and will rope in like-minded people and other non-political\u00a0organisations\u00a0in the country that are working on social issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Talking about his future plans, Phoolka refused to contest SGPC and Lok Sabha elections and said he would carry on his struggle for justice to 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior lawyer HS Phoolka, who resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday, said the turning of Anna movement into a political party wasn&#8217;t a right decision. While addressing reporters at the Press Club of India in Delhi, Phoolka said the reason for his resignation is because he wants to re-launch an agitation similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307768,"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\/307767"}],"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=307767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307771,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307767\/revisions\/307771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}