{"id":312120,"date":"2019-05-10T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312120"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:53:04","slug":"harbhajan-singh-vvs-laxman-back-gautam-gambhir-on-atishi-pamphlet-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/harbhajan-singh-vvs-laxman-back-gautam-gambhir-on-atishi-pamphlet-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbhajan Singh, VVS Laxman back Gautam Gambhir on Atishi pamphlet row"},"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-312121 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cricketers-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/cricketers-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/cricketers.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Indian cricket teammate Harbhajan Singh came out in support of Gautam Gambhir who was accused by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of distributing pamphlets containing obscene and derogatory remarks about AAP\u2019s candidate Atishi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cI am shocked to note yesterday\u2019s events involving @GautamGambhir. I know him well and he can never talk ill for any woman. Whether he wins or loses is another matter but the man is above all this,\u201d Harbhajan tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Another former cricketer VVS Laxman vouched for Gambhir&#8217;s character as he tweeted: &#8220;Shocked to hear about yesterday&#8217;s developments. Having known @GautamGambhir for nearly 2 decades, I can vouch for his integrity, character and the respect he has for women.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AAP&#8217;s East Delhi candidate Atishi in a press conference on Thursday had said that Gambhir 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;\">Gautam Gambhir rubbished the allegations and said would quit politics if the charge is proven.\u00a0 He has also 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 withdraw their allegations against him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian cricket teammate Harbhajan Singh came out in support of Gautam Gambhir who was accused by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of distributing pamphlets containing obscene and derogatory remarks about AAP\u2019s candidate Atishi. \u00a0\u201cI am shocked to note yesterday\u2019s events involving @GautamGambhir. I know him well and he can never talk ill for any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[6722,11329,11330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312120"}],"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=312120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312122,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312120\/revisions\/312122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}