{"id":307828,"date":"2019-01-07T04:35:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307828"},"modified":"2019-01-07T04:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:35:07","slug":"lone-sad-mla-from-haryana-balkaur-singh-joins-jjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lone-sad-mla-from-haryana-balkaur-singh-joins-jjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Lone SAD MLA from Haryana Balkaur Singh joins JJP"},"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-307829 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/balkaur-singh-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/balkaur-singh-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/balkaur-singh-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/balkaur-singh-696x447.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/balkaur-singh-654x420.jpg 654w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/balkaur-singh.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Balkaur Singh, the lone Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA from Haryana on Sunday joined newly formed Jannayak Janata Party (JJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Balkaur, MLA from Kalanwali (SC) seat in Sirsa district, was presented with a JJP flag by party\u2019s patron Chautala while being welcomed to the outfit&#8217;s fold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The JJP came into existence in November 2018, after a split in the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), after a bitter power struggle between Ajay Chautala and Abhay Singh Chautala, the grandsons of Devi Lal who had founded the INLD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With latest entry, the number of JJP supporter MLAs has gone up to four in 90-member Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Balkaur said, \u201cunder the leadership of Ajay Chautala, the JJP, which was following the path shown by Devi Lal, has the vision to take the state forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also said that he was always impressed with the ideals and principles of Ajay Chautala\u2019s grandfather and former deputy Prime Minister late Devi Lal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the event, Ajay Chautala claimed that there is a growing public support in JJP&#8217;s favour and more prominent people would be joining the outfit in the upcoming days.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balkaur Singh, the lone Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA from Haryana on Sunday joined newly formed Jannayak Janata Party (JJP). Balkaur, MLA from Kalanwali (SC) seat in Sirsa district, was presented with a JJP flag by party\u2019s patron Chautala while being welcomed to the outfit&#8217;s fold. The JJP came into existence in November 2018, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[9725,10512,338,10513,3911],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307828"}],"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=307828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307830,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307828\/revisions\/307830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}