{"id":310816,"date":"2019-03-25T13:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310816"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:26:37","slug":"former-union-minister-sukh-ram-back-in-congress-grandson-aashray-also-joins-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-union-minister-sukh-ram-back-in-congress-grandson-aashray-also-joins-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Union minister Sukh Ram back in Congress, grandson Aashray also joins Congress"},"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-310817 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sukh-Ram-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Sukh-Ram-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Sukh-Ram.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former telecom minister\u00a0Sukh Ram\u00a0and his grandson\u00a0Aashray Sharma\u00a0on Monday joined the Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two met Congress president Rahul Gandhi before the formal joining at AICC headquarters today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress President @RahulGandhi welcomes Pandit Sukhram Ji &amp; Shri Aashray Sharma into the Congress Party,\u201d Congress 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;\">Aashray Sharma, son of cabinet minister Anil Sharma in the Jai Ram Thakur-led\u00a0BJP\u00a0government in Himachal Pradesh, seeks to contest from Mandi parliamentary seat, but that did not happen. He however, quit the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u00a0after the saffron party chose to renominate its sitting MP Ramswaroop Sharma from Mandi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The latest development has put Anil Sharma in spot, whether he will resign from the Jai Ram Thakur Cabinet or joins his father and son in the Congress, which will be clear only in the coming days.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former telecom minister\u00a0Sukh Ram\u00a0and his grandson\u00a0Aashray Sharma\u00a0on Monday joined the Congress. The two met Congress president Rahul Gandhi before the formal joining at AICC headquarters today. \u201cCongress President @RahulGandhi welcomes Pandit Sukhram Ji &amp; Shri Aashray Sharma into the Congress Party,\u201d Congress party tweeted. Aashray Sharma, son of cabinet minister Anil Sharma in the Jai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[11196,236,11195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310816"}],"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=310816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310818,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310816\/revisions\/310818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}