{"id":311495,"date":"2019-04-19T07:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T07:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311495"},"modified":"2019-04-19T07:24:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T07:24:59","slug":"priyanka-chaturvedi-quits-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/priyanka-chaturvedi-quits-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chaturvedi quits 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-311497 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/priyanka-c-1-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/priyanka-c-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/priyanka-c-1.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress national spokesperson and convenor of party&#8217;s media cell Priyanka Chaturvedi on Thursday night resigned from the party. She was upset over the party\u2019s decision of reinstating the workers who allegedly misbehaved with her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After resigning from all the posts and primary membership of Congress party, Chaturvedi tweeted, \u201cI am absolutely overwhelmed and grateful with the love and support I have got across board from the nation in the past 3 days. I consider myself blessed with this immense outpouring of support. Thank you to all who have been a part of this journey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday, in a tweet, she said that \u201clumpen goons&#8221; got preference over those who had &#8220;given their sweat and blood&#8221; to the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDeeply saddened that lumpen goons get prefence in @incindia over those who have given their sweat&amp;blood. Having faced brickbats&amp;abuse across board for the party but yet those who threatened me within the party getting away with not even a rap on their knuckles is unfortunate,\u201d Chaturvedi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She was annoyed at the reinstatement of some party workers in Uttar Pradesh who had allegedly misbehaved with her during her press conference in Mathura.\u00a0The party which had initially removed those workers but recently reinstated them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress national spokesperson and convenor of party&#8217;s media cell Priyanka Chaturvedi on Thursday night resigned from the party. She was upset over the party\u2019s decision of reinstating the workers who allegedly misbehaved with her. After resigning from all the posts and primary membership of Congress party, Chaturvedi tweeted, \u201cI am absolutely overwhelmed and grateful with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[11275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311495"}],"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=311495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311498,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311495\/revisions\/311498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}