{"id":311611,"date":"2019-04-24T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T07:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311611"},"modified":"2019-04-24T07:15:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T07:15:25","slug":"bjp-mp-udit-raj-joins-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-mp-udit-raj-joins-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP MP Udit Raj joins Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311612 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/udit-raj-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/udit-raj-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/udit-raj-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/udit-raj-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/udit-raj-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/udit-raj-696x483.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/udit-raj-605x420.jpg 605w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/udit-raj.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dalit leader Udit Raj, who was denied a ticket by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha elections, joined the Congress party on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress President @RahulGandhi welcomes Shri Udit Raj into the Congress party,\u201d Congress party tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP\u2019s MP from North West Delhi Udit Raj had said on Tuesday that he will resign from the party if he was denied a BJP ticket in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0BJP dropped Udit Raj as a candidate\u00a0and replaced him with singer-politician Hans Raj Hans in the North West Delhi seat on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Udit Raj tweeted on April 22, \u201cI am waiting for ticket if not given to me I will do good bye to party.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI still hopeful that I will file nomination from my constituency and BJP where I have worked hard and proved my metal. I hope I will not be forced to leave BJP by BJP itself,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dalit leader Udit Raj, who was denied a ticket by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha elections, joined the Congress party on Wednesday. \u201cCongress President @RahulGandhi welcomes Shri Udit Raj into the Congress party,\u201d Congress party tweeted. The BJP\u2019s MP from North West Delhi Udit Raj had said on Tuesday that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236,3939,11289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311611"}],"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=311611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311613,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311611\/revisions\/311613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}