{"id":314003,"date":"2019-07-14T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T08:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314003"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:48:37","slug":"navjot-singh-sidhu-quits-punjab-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/navjot-singh-sidhu-quits-punjab-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Navjot Singh Sidhu quits Punjab Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-309514 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sidhu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/sidhu.jpg 545w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/sidhu-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/>Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has resigned from the Punjab cabinet after a long-drawn-out tussle with Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On Sunday, Sidhu tweeted a copy of his resignation letter dated June 10 which he submitted to Rahul Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cMy letter to the Congress President Shri. Rahul Gandhi Ji, submitted on 10 June 2019,\u201d Sidhu tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In another tweet, he said: &#8220;Will be sending my resignation to the Chief Minister, Punjab.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;I hereby resign as Minister from the Punjab Cabinet,&#8221; Sidhu wrote in the letter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Sidhu did not take charge of his new ministry after his portfolio was changed from the Local Bodies\u2019 to the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On June 9, he had tweeted pictures with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi after meeting them in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Met the congress President, handed him my letter, appraised him of the situation,&#8221; Sidhu had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has resigned from the Punjab cabinet after a long-drawn-out tussle with Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh. On Sunday, Sidhu tweeted a copy of his resignation letter dated June 10 which he submitted to Rahul Gandhi. \u201cMy letter to the Congress President Shri. Rahul Gandhi Ji, submitted on 10 June 2019,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":309514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[1516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314003"}],"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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314004,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314003\/revisions\/314004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}