{"id":315160,"date":"2019-09-21T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315160"},"modified":"2019-09-21T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:02:52","slug":"congress-appoints-supriya-shrinate-as-aicc-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-appoints-supriya-shrinate-as-aicc-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress appoints Supriya Shrinate as AICC spokesperson"},"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-315161 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/supriya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/supriya.jpg 548w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/supriya-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/supriya-432x420.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress on Saturday appointed Supriya Shrinate, a former TV journalist as the party spokesperson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the appointment of Supriya Shrinate as spokesperson of All India Congress Committee,\u201d a statement issued by the party&#8217;s communication in-charge Randeep Surjewala said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shrinate was the party&#8217;s candidate from Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Maharajganj in the Lok Sabha polls. She lost to BJP&#8217;s Pankaj Chaudhary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Her father Harsh Vardhan was also a Congress leader.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Saturday appointed Supriya Shrinate, a former TV journalist as the party spokesperson. \u201cCongress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the appointment of Supriya Shrinate as spokesperson of All India Congress Committee,\u201d a statement issued by the party&#8217;s communication in-charge Randeep Surjewala said. Shrinate was the party&#8217;s candidate from Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Maharajganj in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[236,11818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315160"}],"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=315160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315162,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315160\/revisions\/315162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}