{"id":309043,"date":"2019-02-06T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T06:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309043"},"modified":"2019-02-06T07:15:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:15:02","slug":"bsp-chief-mayawati-joins-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bsp-chief-mayawati-joins-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"BSP chief Mayawati joins Twitter"},"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-299905 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/22a-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-696x430.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-680x420.jpg 680w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday, joined social networking site Twitter &#8216;for speedy interaction with people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mayawati announced her association with the microblogging site with a tweet followed by a series of posts featuring press releases by the BSP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This is to inform you that BSP national president Mayawati has for the first time decided to join Twitter for speedy interaction with media and masses besides expressing her views on various issues of national and political importance through Twitter,&#8221; read a statement from the party on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav welcomed Mayawati to the social media platform and tweeted, \u201cFinally glad to see you here. Happy that you acknowledged and respected my request of joining twitter during our meeting in Lucknow on 13th January. Warm Regards.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday, joined social networking site Twitter &#8216;for speedy interaction with people. Mayawati announced her association with the microblogging site with a tweet followed by a series of posts featuring press releases by the BSP. &#8220;This is to inform you that BSP national president Mayawati has for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1005,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309043"}],"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=309043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309044,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309043\/revisions\/309044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}