{"id":310123,"date":"2019-03-04T17:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310123"},"modified":"2019-03-04T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T17:42:56","slug":"former-biju-janata-dal-mp-baijayant-jay-panda-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-biju-janata-dal-mp-baijayant-jay-panda-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Biju Janata Dal MP Baijayant Jay Panda joins BJP"},"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-310124 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pandya-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pandya-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pandya-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pandya-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pandya-636x420.jpg 636w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pandya.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Baijayant Jay Panda on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ending speculation over his political affiliation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Panda took to his twitter account and made announcement of his joining BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNine months of introspection &amp; widespread consultations w\/colleagues &amp; public. Grateful for support recd from all over. On auspicious #MahaShivratri I&#8217;ve decided to join @BJP4India &amp; work under the leadership of @narendramodi Ji to serve Odisha &amp; India to the best of my ability,\u201d Panda tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Panda joined the ruling party in the presence of Union minister and BJP\u2009leader Dharmendra Pradhan in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI welcome my friend, Shri Baijayant Jay Panda @PandaJay into the @BJP4India family. His popularity and connect with the Odia youth will further strengthen the surge of @BJP4Odisha in Odisha,\u201d Dharmendra Pradhan tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Panda, a long-time BJD leader, had fallen apart with party chief Naveen Patnaik, last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Baijayant Jay Panda on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ending speculation over his political affiliation. Panda took to his twitter account and made announcement of his joining BJP. \u201cNine months of introspection &amp; widespread consultations w\/colleagues &amp; public. Grateful for support recd from all over. On auspicious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[11040,3803,453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310123"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310125,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310123\/revisions\/310125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}