{"id":314217,"date":"2019-07-25T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314217"},"modified":"2019-07-25T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:51:18","slug":"ncps-mumbai-chief-sachin-ahir-joins-shiv-sena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ncps-mumbai-chief-sachin-ahir-joins-shiv-sena\/","title":{"rendered":"NCP&#8217;s Mumbai chief Sachin Ahir joins Shiv Sena"},"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-314219 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/sachin-ahir-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/sachin-ahir-1.jpg 753w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/sachin-ahir-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/sachin-ahir-1-696x364.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/>A senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sachin Ahir joined the Shiv Sena on Thursday, just months before assembly election in Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">NCP&#8217;s Mumbai president, Ahir joined the Shiv Sena in the presence of party president Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya Thackeray. Ahir\u2019s joining in Shiv Sena came as a surprise for many in the NCP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018In politics, sometimes tough decisions have to be taken,\u2019 Ahir told reporters adding to it, he said he would work towards\u00a0strengthening the Shiv Sena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sachin Ahir was three-term MLA from Worli lost 2014 Assembly polls to Shiv Sena\u2019s Sunil Shinde.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sachin Ahir joined the Shiv Sena on Thursday, just months before assembly election in Maharashtra. NCP&#8217;s Mumbai president, Ahir joined the Shiv Sena in the presence of party president Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya Thackeray. Ahir\u2019s joining in Shiv Sena came as a surprise for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014],"tags":[11658,1890,11657,513,2691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314217"}],"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=314217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314220,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314217\/revisions\/314220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}