{"id":314969,"date":"2019-09-10T12:26:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314969"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:26:29","slug":"actor-turned-politician-urmila-matondkar-quits-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/actor-turned-politician-urmila-matondkar-quits-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar quits Congress\u00a0"},"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-314970 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/urmila.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/urmila.jpg 510w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/urmila-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Actor turned politician Urmila Matondkar, who joined the Congress ahead of Lok Sabha Elections, has resigned from the party on Tuesday, citing &#8216;petty in-house politics&#8217; as\u00a0a reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">My political and social sensibilities refuse to allow vested interests in the party to use me as a mean to fight petty in-house politics instead of working on a bigger goal in Mumbai Congress.,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She had earlier expressed concern over an act of blatant betrayal in connection with the leak of the letter, which exposed the internal war within Mumbai Congress. In her letter, she had criticised the conduct of two local leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Matondkar had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from the North Mumbai seat. However, she was defeated by BJP veteran Gopal Shetty.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor turned politician Urmila Matondkar, who joined the Congress ahead of Lok Sabha Elections, has resigned from the party on Tuesday, citing &#8216;petty in-house politics&#8217; as\u00a0a reason. My political and social sensibilities refuse to allow vested interests in the party to use me as a mean to fight petty in-house politics instead of working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[11200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314969"}],"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=314969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314971,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314969\/revisions\/314971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}