{"id":310819,"date":"2019-03-26T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T08:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310819"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T08:43:47","slug":"lok-sabha-elections-veteran-bollywood-actor-jaya-prada-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lok-sabha-elections-veteran-bollywood-actor-jaya-prada-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha Elections: Veteran Bollywood actor Jaya Prada 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-310820 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jaya-prada-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/jaya-prada-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/jaya-prada-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/jaya-prada-696x489.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/jaya-prada-598x420.jpg 598w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/jaya-prada.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahead of Lok Sabha Elections, Veteran Bollywood actor Jaya Prada on Tuesday joined the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of senior party leaders.<\/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, the party may field the actor-turned-politician from Rampur constituency. The same constituency from where Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded Azam Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jaya Prada had contested the 2004 Lok Sabha elections on SP&#8217;s ticket from Rampur and won the constituency by a margin of\u00a0more than 85,000 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jaya Prada has been a part of several political parties. She started her political journey with Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1994 but quit it after the differences with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and then joined SP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2010, she was expelled from the SP over her alleged involvement in anti-party activities, following which she joined Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Lok Sabha Elections, Veteran Bollywood actor Jaya Prada on Tuesday joined the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of senior party leaders. According to the sources, the party may field the actor-turned-politician from Rampur constituency. The same constituency from where Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded Azam Khan. Jaya Prada had contested the 2004 Lok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,11197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310819"}],"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=310819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310823,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310819\/revisions\/310823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}