{"id":313177,"date":"2019-06-10T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313177"},"modified":"2019-06-10T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T06:51:16","slug":"navjot-singh-sidhu-meets-rahul-priyanka-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/navjot-singh-sidhu-meets-rahul-priyanka-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Navjot Singh Sidhu meets Rahul, Priyanka in Delhi"},"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-313178 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sidhu-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sidhu-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sidhu-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sidhu-696x441.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sidhu-664x420.jpg 664w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sidhu.jpg 869w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday met party president Rahul Gandhi and party General Secretary of UP East Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu in his tweet mentioned that he has submitted his letter to Rahul Gandhi, apprising him of the \u201csituation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Met the Congress President, handed him my letter, appraised him of the situation!&#8221; Sidhu tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Along with the tweet, he posted a picture in which he was standing alongside Rahul and party leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Ahmed Patel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu had arrived in National Capital on Friday to meet the party&#8217;s top leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu was allocated a new portfolio last week in the cabinet meet headed by chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Sidhu is yet to assume charge of his new office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The rift between Capt Amarinder and Sidhu came to the fore with the chief minister preferring to keep Sidhu out of key consultative groups that were announced on Saturday to review progress and make changes, if required, in the government&#8217;s flagship programmes and schemes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday met party president Rahul Gandhi and party General Secretary of UP East Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi. Sidhu in his tweet mentioned that he has submitted his letter to Rahul Gandhi, apprising him of the \u201csituation\u201d. &#8220;Met the Congress President, handed him my letter, appraised him of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[1516,4279,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313177"}],"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=313177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313180,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313177\/revisions\/313180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}