{"id":307906,"date":"2019-01-09T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307906"},"modified":"2019-01-09T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T11:00:34","slug":"trinamool-congress-mp-saumitra-khan-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/trinamool-congress-mp-saumitra-khan-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinamool Congress MP Saumitra Khan joins BJP"},"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-307907 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bjp-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bjp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bjp-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bjp-696x393.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bjp-744x420.jpg 744w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bjp.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saumitra Khan on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Saumitra Khan joined the saffron party in the presence of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and West Bengal BJP leader Mukul Roy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan met BJP president Amit Shah earlier today, before the news came that he will be joining the Saffron Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khan represents Bishnupur constituency and was earlier a member of the state assembly as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saumitra Khan on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Saumitra Khan joined the saffron party in the presence of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and West Bengal BJP leader Mukul Roy.\u00a0 Khan met BJP president Amit Shah earlier today, before the news came that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[453,10542,1486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307906"}],"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=307906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307908,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307906\/revisions\/307908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}