{"id":309323,"date":"2019-02-14T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T09:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309323"},"modified":"2019-02-14T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T09:17:23","slug":"congress-has-almost-ruled-out-alliance-with-aap-arvind-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-has-almost-ruled-out-alliance-with-aap-arvind-kejriwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress has almost ruled out alliance with AAP: Arvind Kejriwal"},"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-299539 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kejr-1-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/kejr-1-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/kejr-1.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the Congress has &#8220;more or less&#8221; ruled out an alliance with his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi, a day after he had participated in a meeting with opposition leaders, including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When asked whether the AAP was more eager for an alliance with the Congress, Kejriwal said the BJP would benefit in a three-cornered contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday agreed to work together to prepare a common minimum programme to oust the Narendra Modi government and had decided on a pre-poll alliance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting was hosted by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar at his residence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the Congress has &#8220;more or less&#8221; ruled out an alliance with his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi, a day after he had participated in a meeting with opposition leaders, including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. When asked whether the AAP was more eager for an alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[304,306,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309323"}],"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=309323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309324,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309323\/revisions\/309324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}