{"id":312612,"date":"2019-05-26T06:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T06:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312612"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:30:17","slug":"smriti-irani-close-aide-shot-dead-in-amethi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/smriti-irani-close-aide-shot-dead-in-amethi\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Irani close aide shot dead in Amethi"},"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-312613 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/surendra-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/surendra-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/surendra.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A close aide of BJP leader Smriti Irani was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Amethi district, police said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surendra Singh, a former head of Baraulia village, was killed on late Saturday night at his residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was referred to Lucknow in a serious condition and later succumbed to his injuries, while he was getting treated, a police officer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident occurred just days after Smriti Irani won the Lok Sabha elections from the Amethi parliamentary constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The police have registered a\u00a0case and\u00a0investigation is underway to nab the culprits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Singh had been working very closely with Irani for the past couple of years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amethi is considered a stronghold of the Congress party since years. But in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, the Congress suffered a defeat with Rahul Gandhi losing to BJP&#8217;s Smriti Irani by 55,120 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close aide of BJP leader Smriti Irani was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Amethi district, police said on Sunday. Surendra Singh, a former head of Baraulia village, was killed on late Saturday night at his residence. He was referred to Lucknow in a serious condition and later succumbed to his injuries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":312613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[2167,11407,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312612"}],"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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312614,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312612\/revisions\/312614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}