{"id":313965,"date":"2019-07-11T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313965"},"modified":"2019-07-11T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:48:10","slug":"ten-goa-congress-mlas-join-bjp-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ten-goa-congress-mlas-join-bjp-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Goa Congress MLAs join BJP 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=\"size-full wp-image-313966 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Goa-congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Goa-congress.jpg 725w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Goa-congress-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Goa-congress-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Goa-congress-696x497.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Goa-congress-588x420.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/>Ten Congress MLAs from Goa on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of the party&#8217;s working president JP Nadda and Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday the Congress had\u00a0plunged into crisis\u00a0after a group of MLAs in Goa, led by Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Chandrakant Kavlekar defected from the party.<\/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, the letter of a merger was handed over to Speaker on Wednesday evening in Sawant&#8217;s presence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the merging of ten Congress lawmakers into the BJP, the party&#8217;s strength has increased to 27 in the 40-seat house, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Accusing the BJP of orchestrating political crisis in both Goa and Karnataka, Congress MPs held a protest in Parliament today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Top Congress leaders, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi protested near the Gandhi statue in the Parliament complex.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Congress MLAs from Goa on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of the party&#8217;s working president JP Nadda and Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. On Wednesday the Congress had\u00a0plunged into crisis\u00a0after a group of MLAs in Goa, led by Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Chandrakant Kavlekar defected from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2922,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[453,236,2025,1580,11158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313965"}],"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=313965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313968,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313965\/revisions\/313968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}