{"id":314586,"date":"2019-08-12T08:40:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314586"},"modified":"2019-08-12T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:41:04","slug":"wrestler-babita-phogat-father-mahavir-phogat-join-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/wrestler-babita-phogat-father-mahavir-phogat-join-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestler Babita Phogat, father Mahavir Phogat join BJP"},"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-314587 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/babita.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/babita.jpg 678w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/babita-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/babita-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/babita-581x420.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/>Wrestler and Commonwealth Games champion Babita Phogat and her father Mahavir Phogat on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They joined the party in the presence of Union minister Kiren Rijiju.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWrestler @BabitaPhogat and her father Shri Mahavir Singh Phogat join BJP at BJP HQ,\u201d the BJP said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two popular faces of Haryana joined the BJP ahead of the Haryana assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Babita Phogat came out in support of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar who has provoked outrage with his remarks on Kashmiri girls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Babita had backed him saying there was nothing offensive in what he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar has not made any such statement that is offensive to our sisters and daughters. I urge media to not misinterpret his statement,&#8221; Babita had said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestler and Commonwealth Games champion Babita Phogat and her father Mahavir Phogat on Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). They joined the party in the presence of Union minister Kiren Rijiju. \u201cWrestler @BabitaPhogat and her father Shri Mahavir Singh Phogat join BJP at BJP HQ,\u201d the BJP said in a tweet. The two popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,2014],"tags":[11735,453,11736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314586"}],"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=314586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314590,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314586\/revisions\/314590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}