{"id":307881,"date":"2019-01-08T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307881"},"modified":"2019-01-08T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:23:33","slug":"sukhpal-khaira-floats-new-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sukhpal-khaira-floats-new-political-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukhpal Khaira floats new Political Party"},"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-307810 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/khaira-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/khaira-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/khaira-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/khaira.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sukhpal Khaira, who recently quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), on Tuesday announced a new political outfit, Punjabi Ekta Party (PEP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khaira said that their party would be a Punjab-centric regional party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Six Rebel MLAs- Kanwar Singh Sandhu, Nazar Singh Manshahia, Master Baldev Singh, Pirmal Singh, Jagdev Kamalu and Jagga Issowal were also present at the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khaira resigned on Sunday from the primary membership of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After Sukhpal\u2019s resignation Manish Sisodia tweeted, \u201cMr Sukhpal Khaira&#8217;s resignation was expected. Party will be strengthened with his exit. He shuld now resign from MLA also, which he won on party ticket. Mr Khaira started revolting against party since post of LoP in Punjab was given to a Dalit leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a resignation letter Khaira had said that the AAP has totally deviated from its founding principles and ideology on which it was formed post the Anna Hazare movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khaira said, \u201cunfortunately after joining the party I realised that the hierarchy of AAP was no different from the traditional centralised political parties.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sukhpal Khaira, who recently quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), on Tuesday announced a new political outfit, Punjabi Ekta Party (PEP). Khaira said that their party would be a Punjab-centric regional party. Six Rebel MLAs- Kanwar Singh Sandhu, Nazar Singh Manshahia, Master Baldev Singh, Pirmal Singh, Jagdev Kamalu and Jagga Issowal were also present at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[10536,10509],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307881"}],"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=307881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307882,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307881\/revisions\/307882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}