{"id":313863,"date":"2019-07-04T04:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T04:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313863"},"modified":"2019-07-04T04:33:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T04:33:58","slug":"few-have-the-courage-priyanka-gandhi-vadra-on-rahuls-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/few-have-the-courage-priyanka-gandhi-vadra-on-rahuls-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Few have the courage\u2019: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Rahul\u2019s resignation"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-313864 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/priyanka-rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/priyanka-rahul.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/priyanka-rahul-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/priyanka-rahul-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/priyanka-rahul-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A day after Rahul Gandhi in a letter announced his decision to step down as party president by saying accountability was critical to the future growth of the party, his sister and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday in a tweet said that &#8220;Few have the courage that you do&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFew have the courage that you do @rahulgandhi. Deepest respect for your decision,\u201d Priyanka tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday posted a letter on his Twitter and made it public that he had resigned from the post of Congress president after party colleagues refused to accept the resignation, he offered on May 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his letter, Rahul Gandhi had said: \u201cRebuilding the party requires hard decisions and numerous people will have to be made accountable for the failure of 2019. It would be unjust to hold others accountable but ignore my own responsibility as President of the party.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after Rahul Gandhi in a letter announced his decision to step down as party president by saying accountability was critical to the future growth of the party, his sister and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday in a tweet said that &#8220;Few have the courage that you do&#8221;. \u201cFew have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236,4279,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313863"}],"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=313863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313865,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313863\/revisions\/313865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}