{"id":310431,"date":"2019-03-14T09:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T09:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310431"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:15:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:15:03","slug":"tmc-mla-arjun-singh-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tmc-mla-arjun-singh-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"TMC MLA Arjun Singh Joins BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310432 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/arjun-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/arjun-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/arjun-768x394.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/arjun-696x357.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/arjun.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman and Bhatpara MLA Arjun Singh on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He joined the BJP in the presence of senior party leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh expressed his desire to contest from Barrackpore parliamentary constituency but was unhappy with the party\u2019s decision of providing Lok Sabha ticket to Dinesh Trivedi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former TMC MP Anupam Hazra on Tuesday also joined the BJP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman and Bhatpara MLA Arjun Singh on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He joined the BJP in the presence of senior party leaders. Singh expressed his desire to contest from Barrackpore parliamentary constituency but was unhappy with the party\u2019s decision of providing Lok Sabha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[11088,453,1486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310431"}],"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=310431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310433,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310431\/revisions\/310433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}