{"id":310256,"date":"2019-03-08T12:43:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310256"},"modified":"2019-03-08T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:48:26","slug":"baijayant-jay-panda-appointed-as-bjp-national-vice-president-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/baijayant-jay-panda-appointed-as-bjp-national-vice-president-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Baijayant Jay Panda appointed as BJP National Vice-President, spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/baijayant-jay-panda-appointed-as-bjp-national-vice-president-spokesperson\/panda\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310259\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310259 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/panda-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/panda-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/panda-356x364.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/panda-409x420.jpg 409w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/panda.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a>Baijayant Jay Panda, who joined the BJP last week, was on Friday appointed as the party&#8217;s spokesperson and vice president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to an official statement, BJP President Amit Shah has appointed Panda as national Vice President and Spokesperson of the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amit Shah&#8217;s decision to give him an important organisational responsibility within a short span signals the importance the party has given him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Panda, the owner of an Odisha-based media group had quit the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) last year and also resigned from his Lok Sabha membership after his suspension from the party headed by state&#8217;s Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baijayant Jay Panda, who joined the BJP last week, was on Friday appointed as the party&#8217;s spokesperson and vice president. According to an official statement, BJP President Amit Shah has appointed Panda as national Vice President and Spokesperson of the party. Amit Shah&#8217;s decision to give him an important organisational responsibility within a short span [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1194,11040],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310256"}],"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=310256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310261,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310256\/revisions\/310261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}