{"id":312097,"date":"2019-05-09T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312097"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:21:31","slug":"former-punjab-bureaucrat-ss-channy-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-punjab-bureaucrat-ss-channy-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Punjab bureaucrat SS Channy 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-312098 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ss-channy-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/ss-channy-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/ss-channy-469x420.jpg 469w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/ss-channy.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Punjab bureaucrat SS Channy on Thursday joined 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;\">He joined the party in the presence of Union minister Nitin Gadkari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An IAS officer of 1982 batch, Channy served as the Chief Information Commissioner of Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Channy, the son-in-law of former President Giani Zail Singh, had also served as the secretary of Punjab&#8217;s Home department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several other individuals from the IAS background had joined the BJP in recent months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former IAS officer Aparajita Sarangi joined BJP on November 27, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last month, former Karnataka Chief Secretary and retired IAS officer K Ratna Prabha joined the party\u00a0in the presence of BJP State President BS Yeddyurappa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Punjab bureaucrat SS Channy on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He joined the party in the presence of Union minister Nitin Gadkari. An IAS officer of 1982 batch, Channy served as the Chief Information Commissioner of Punjab. Channy, the son-in-law of former President Giani Zail Singh, had also served as the secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,3939,11327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312097"}],"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=312097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312100,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312097\/revisions\/312100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}