{"id":311705,"date":"2019-04-27T13:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311705"},"modified":"2019-04-27T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T13:15:52","slug":"case-against-bjps-gautam-gambhir-for-holding-election-rally-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/case-against-bjps-gautam-gambhir-for-holding-election-rally-without-permission\/","title":{"rendered":"Case against BJP&#8217;s Gautam Gambhir for holding Election rally without permission"},"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-311706 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gautam-1-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/gautam-1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/gautam-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/gautam-1-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/gautam-1-570x420.jpg 570w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/gautam-1.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi Police on Saturday registered a case against Gautam Gambhir for holding an election rally without taking permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The move came after the Election Commission (EC) had asked that the FIR be registered against Gautam Gambhir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The EC said Gambhir had not taken permission for his rally in Delhi&#8217;s Jangpura, violating the model code of conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The cricketer-turned-politician is the BJP\u2019s nominee from the East Delhi Lok Sabha seat and is pitted against AAP\u2019s Atishi and senior Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gautam Gambhir is making his debut from the Lok Sabha seat and has been under attack from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over allegations that he had double entries in the voter list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFirst, Discrepancies in nomination papers. Then, Criminal offence of having 2 voter IDs. Now, FIR for illegal rally. My question to @GautamGambhir: When you don&#8217;t know the rules, why play the game?\u201d AAP East Delhi candidate Atishi questioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTwo voter lists. Two Assembly Constituencies. One common name: Gautam Gambhir One conclusion: @GautamGambhir\u2019s imminent disqualification from the Lok Sabha election,\u201d Atishi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi will vote on May 12 and the results will be counted on May 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Police on Saturday registered a case against Gautam Gambhir for holding an election rally without taking permission. The move came after the Election Commission (EC) had asked that the FIR be registered against Gautam Gambhir. The EC said Gambhir had not taken permission for his rally in Delhi&#8217;s Jangpura, violating the model code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[9989,6722,3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311705"}],"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=311705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311707,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311705\/revisions\/311707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}