{"id":310988,"date":"2019-04-02T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310988"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T10:52:17","slug":"karnataka-tejaswini-ananth-kumar-appointed-as-bjp-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-tejaswini-ananth-kumar-appointed-as-bjp-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: Tejaswini Ananth Kumar appointed as BJP Vice President"},"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-310989 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tejashwini-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/tejashwini-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/tejashwini-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/tejashwini.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tejaswini Ananth Kumar wife of late Union Minister Ananth Kumar was on Tuesday appointed as the state vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The development came days after Tejaswini was denied a Lok Sabha ticket from south Bengaluru parliamentary constituency, a seat which was represented by her husband Ananth Kumar since 1996.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ananth Kumar passed away in November 2018 after battling with cancer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP Karnataka president BS Yeddyurappa announced the news on his Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am very delighted to announce that Smt. @Tej_AnanthKumar has been appointed as state vice president of @BJP4Karnataka,\u201d Yeddyurappa tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tejaswini Ananth Kumar wife of late Union Minister Ananth Kumar was on Tuesday appointed as the state vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The development came days after Tejaswini was denied a Lok Sabha ticket from south Bengaluru parliamentary constituency, a seat which was represented by her husband Ananth Kumar since 1996.\u00a0 Ananth Kumar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[1343,1549,1430,11223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310988"}],"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=310988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310990,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310988\/revisions\/310990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}