{"id":312711,"date":"2019-05-30T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312711"},"modified":"2019-05-30T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T06:02:08","slug":"no-tv-debates-for-congress-for-a-month-says-randeep-surjewala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/no-tv-debates-for-congress-for-a-month-says-randeep-surjewala\/","title":{"rendered":"No TV debates for Congress for a month, says Randeep Surjewala"},"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-312712 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/surjewala-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/surjewala-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/surjewala-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/surjewala-696x467.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/surjewala-627x420.jpg 627w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/surjewala.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress party on Thursday said it will not send spokespersons for television debates for a month, as it battles crisis following Rahul Gandhi\u2019s decision to quit as its president after a party&#8217;s debacle performance in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said in a tweet \u201c@INCIndia has decided to not send spokespersons on television debates for a month.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;All media channels\/editors are requested to not place Congress representatives on their shows,&#8221; Surjewala added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi has been adamant about stepping down from the top post after the party\u2019s crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Several Congress leaders have been requesting him to rethink about his decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress won 52 seats out of 542 and the BJP-led by PM Modi won 303 seats in Lok Sabha Polls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress party on Thursday said it will not send spokespersons for television debates for a month, as it battles crisis following Rahul Gandhi\u2019s decision to quit as its president after a party&#8217;s debacle performance in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said in a tweet \u201c@INCIndia has decided to not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312711"}],"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=312711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312713,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312711\/revisions\/312713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}