{"id":310427,"date":"2019-03-14T09:24:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T09:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310427"},"modified":"2019-03-14T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T09:24:04","slug":"senior-congress-leader-tom-vadakkan-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/senior-congress-leader-tom-vadakkan-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Congress leader Tom Vadakkan 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-310429 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tom-1-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/tom-1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/tom-1-527x420.jpg 527w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/tom-1.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior Congress leader and a close aide of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Tom Vadakkan on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was welcomed by senior party leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad 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;\">Vadakkan switched over to the BJP camp as he was deeply hurt when Congress questioned the armed forces in the aftermath of Pulwama terror attack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader and a close aide of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Tom Vadakkan on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019. He was welcomed by senior party leader and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in New Delhi. Vadakkan switched over to the BJP camp as he was deeply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,11087],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310427"}],"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=310427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310430,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310427\/revisions\/310430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}