{"id":310868,"date":"2019-03-28T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310868"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:34:02","slug":"suspended-aam-aadmi-party-leader-harinder-singh-khalsa-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/suspended-aam-aadmi-party-leader-harinder-singh-khalsa-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Aam Aadmi Party leader Harinder Singh Khalsa 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-310869 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BJP-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/BJP-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/BJP-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/BJP-696x512.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/BJP-570x420.jpg 570w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/BJP.jpg 747w\" 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;\">Sitting\u00a0MP\u00a0from\u00a0Punjab\u00a0Harinder Singh Khalsa, who was suspended from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), joined the BJP on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khalsa joined the party in the presence of\u00a0Union Finance minister\u00a0Arun Jaitley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He had won the 2014 Lok Sabha polls on AAP&#8217;s ticket but was suspended from the party in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khalsa started his political carrier with the Bharatiya Janata Party&#8217;s ally in Punjab Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting\u00a0MP\u00a0from\u00a0Punjab\u00a0Harinder Singh Khalsa, who was suspended from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), joined the BJP on Thursday. Khalsa joined the party in the presence of\u00a0Union Finance minister\u00a0Arun Jaitley. He had won the 2014 Lok Sabha polls on AAP&#8217;s ticket but was suspended from the party in 2015. Khalsa started his political carrier with the Bharatiya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[304,453,11207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310868"}],"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=310868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310871,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310868\/revisions\/310871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}