{"id":310744,"date":"2019-03-22T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310744"},"modified":"2019-03-22T08:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T08:11:24","slug":"former-cricketer-gautam-gambhir-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-cricketer-gautam-gambhir-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir 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-310745 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gautan-gambhir-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/gautan-gambhir-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/gautan-gambhir-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/gautan-gambhir-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/gautan-gambhir-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/gautan-gambhir.jpg 801w\" 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;\">Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 37-year-old joined the party in the presence of Union ministers Arun Jaitley and 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;\">&#8220;It is a significant induction,&#8221; said Arun Jaitley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gambhir said that he has been influenced by PM Modi\u2019s vision for the country and through this platform he can do something more for the country.<\/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 the sources, Gambhir may contest from the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat,\u00a0currently held by the party&#8217;s Meenakshi Lekhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When asked if Gambhir would contest from a Lok\u2009Sabha seat in Delhi, Arun Jaitley said \u201cleave the decision to the party&#8217;s election committee&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The 37-year-old joined the party in the presence of Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Ravi Shankar Prasad in New Delhi. &#8220;It is a significant induction,&#8221; said Arun Jaitley. Gambhir said that he has been influenced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,6722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310744"}],"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=310744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310746,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310744\/revisions\/310746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}