{"id":307963,"date":"2019-01-11T04:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T04:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307963"},"modified":"2019-01-11T04:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T04:39:57","slug":"bjp-appoints-former-cms-shivraj-raman-vasundhara-as-party-vice-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-appoints-former-cms-shivraj-raman-vasundhara-as-party-vice-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP appoints former CMs Shivraj, Raman, Vasundhara as party vice presidents"},"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-307964 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shivrajramanraje-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"844\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shivrajramanraje-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shivrajramanraje-768x297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shivrajramanraje-696x270.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/shivrajramanraje.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 844px) 100vw, 844px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday appointed former chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh and Vasundhara Raje as its vice presidents, bringing its state leaders into the national politics ahead of Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;BJP President\u00a0Amit Shah\u00a0has appointed Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh and Vasundhara Raje as the party&#8217;s national\u00a0vice presidents\u00a0with immediate effect,&#8221; an official statement issued by the party said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the recent Assembly polls the party had lost power in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Raman Singh were Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh chief ministers respectively for three terms. Vasundhara Raje was Rajasthan chief minister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday appointed former chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh and Vasundhara Raje as its vice presidents, bringing its state leaders into the national politics ahead of Lok Sabha polls. &#8220;BJP President\u00a0Amit Shah\u00a0has appointed Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Raman Singh and Vasundhara Raje as the party&#8217;s national\u00a0vice presidents\u00a0with immediate effect,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[453,8634,4610,3218,1342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307963"}],"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=307963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307965,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307963\/revisions\/307965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}