{"id":310604,"date":"2019-03-17T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310604"},"modified":"2019-03-17T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T09:54:22","slug":"odisha-prakash-chandra-behera-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/odisha-prakash-chandra-behera-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha: Prakash Chandra Behera 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-310605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/behera-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/behera-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/behera-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/behera-696x442.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/behera-661x420.jpg 661w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/behera.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Odisha MLA Prakash Chandra Behera on Sunday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cShri Prakash Chandra Behera (Congress MLA) joins BJP in the presence of Shri @dpradhanbjp, Shri @basantpandabjp and Shri @PandaJay,\u201d BJP party tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan said, \u201cInducted Shri. Prakash Chandra Behera, Sitting MLA from Salepur constituency, Cuttack into @BJP4India in the presence of senior leaders of @BJP4Odisha. Welcome his decision of joining #BJP to fulfill the vision of a #NewOdisha under the leadership of Hon. PM Sh. @narendramodi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Behera quit the Congress on Saturday, saying that he was ignored by the party.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odisha MLA Prakash Chandra Behera on Sunday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan. \u201cShri Prakash Chandra Behera (Congress MLA) joins BJP in the presence of Shri @dpradhanbjp, Shri @basantpandabjp and Shri @PandaJay,\u201d BJP party tweeted. Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan said, \u201cInducted Shri. Prakash Chandra Behera, Sitting MLA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,236,11150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310604"}],"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=310604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310606,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310604\/revisions\/310606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}