{"id":310469,"date":"2019-03-15T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310469"},"modified":"2019-03-15T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:43:15","slug":"haryana-former-congress-mp-arvind-sharma-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/haryana-former-congress-mp-arvind-sharma-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana: Former Congress MP Arvind Sharma 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-310470 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/arvind-sharma-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/arvind-sharma-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/arvind-sharma-522x420.jpg 522w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/arvind-sharma.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Congress MP Arvind Sharma on Friday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and party general secretary in charge of the state Anil Jain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Manohar Lal Khattar and Anil Jain said Sharma&#8217;s induction into the party would strengthen it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma, a former MP from Karnal in Haryana, quit the\u00a0Congress\u00a0to join the\u00a0Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)\u00a0during the Assembly elections. He won Karnal seat in 2004 and 2009 but had lost to the BJP&#8217;s\u00a0Ashwani Kumar Chopra\u00a0in the Lok Sabha polls of 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma had won the Lok Sabha seat from Sonepat in 1996 as an independent candidate and joined the Congress in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Congress MP Arvind Sharma on Friday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and party general secretary in charge of the state Anil Jain. Manohar Lal Khattar and Anil Jain said Sharma&#8217;s induction into the party would strengthen it. Sharma, a former MP from Karnal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[11099,11098,453,1351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310469"}],"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=310469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310471,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310469\/revisions\/310471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}