{"id":308645,"date":"2019-01-30T03:33:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308645"},"modified":"2019-01-30T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T08:01:42","slug":"bhagwant-mann-to-take-charge-as-aaps-punjab-chief-on-january-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bhagwant-mann-to-take-charge-as-aaps-punjab-chief-on-january-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagwant Mann to take charge as AAP\u2019s Punjab chief on January 30"},"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-308649 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190130-091724__01-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190130-091724__01-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190130-091724__01-696x654.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190130-091724__01-447x420.jpg 447w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190130-091724__01.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker and Sangrur Member of Parliament (MP) Bhagwant Mann will take over the reins of the party&#8217;s Punjab unit on January 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mann will be formally installed chief of Punjab at a ceremony in Chandigarh which will be attended by Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and in-charge of Punjab affairs Manish Sisodia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, Punjab unit of the AAP unanimously rejected the Mann&#8217;s resignation which he tendered following party supremo Arvind Kejriwal&#8217;s apology to former Akali Dal minister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mann had announced his resignation as party\u2019s Punjab chief in March 2018 a day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal apologised to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia for having levelled \u201cunfounded\u201d allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Among others who are likely to be a part of installation ceremony include, Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs), members of state Core Committee, state executive committee and officials from various wings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker and Sangrur Member of Parliament (MP) Bhagwant Mann will take over the reins of the party&#8217;s Punjab unit on January 30. Mann will be formally installed chief of Punjab at a ceremony in Chandigarh which will be attended by Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and in-charge of Punjab affairs Manish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[304,10724],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308645"}],"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=308645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308668,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308645\/revisions\/308668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}