{"id":312110,"date":"2019-05-10T05:13:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T05:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312110"},"modified":"2019-05-10T05:13:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T05:13:34","slug":"gautam-gambhir-sends-defamation-notice-to-arvind-kejriwal-manish-sisodia-atishi-over-derogatory-pamphlet-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gautam-gambhir-sends-defamation-notice-to-arvind-kejriwal-manish-sisodia-atishi-over-derogatory-pamphlet-accusation\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Gambhir sends defamation notice to Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Atishi over derogatory pamphlet accusation"},"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-311706 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gautam-1-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"338\" 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: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Cricketer-turned-politician and BJP\u2019s East Delhi Candidate Gautam Gambhir has sent a defamation notice to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and AAP\u2019s candidate Atishi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the notice, Gambhir has demanded an apology from the AAP leaders and asked them to also withdraw their false statements against him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The notice has been sent hours after Atishi in a press conference on Thursday alleged that the cricketer-turned-politician had\u00a0distributed a pamphlet\u00a0containing obscene and derogatory remarks against her in the constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Manish Sisodia, who was also present at the press conference accused Gambhir of circulating pamphlets in an attempt to defame AAP candidate Atishi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGautam Gambhir circulated derogatory pamphlet about AAP\u2019s Atishi in East Delhi constituency. Language in this pamphlet is so abusive and low that everybody will feel ashamed while reading it,\u201d Sisodia said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Arvind Kejriwal, on Twitter, said he never imagined Gautam Gambhir could &#8220;stoop so low&#8221;. &#8220;How can women expect safety if people with such mentality are voted? Atishi, stay strong. I can imagine how difficult it must be for you. It is precisely this kind of forces we have to fight against,&#8221; Arvind Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Gautam Gambhir rubbished the allegations and said would quit politics if the charge is proven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gambhir told CM Arvind Kejriwal that he abhors his act of outraging a woman\u2019s modesty and that too his own colleague. And all this for winning elections?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cI declare that if it\u2019s proven that I did it, I will withdraw my candidature right now. If not, will u (Kejriwal) quit politics?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricketer-turned-politician and BJP\u2019s East Delhi Candidate Gautam Gambhir has sent a defamation notice to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and AAP\u2019s candidate Atishi. In the notice, Gambhir has demanded an apology from the AAP leaders and asked them to also withdraw their false [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[2438,304,306,11328,6722,2441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312110"}],"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=312110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312111,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312110\/revisions\/312111"}],"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=312110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}