{"id":315188,"date":"2019-09-23T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315188"},"modified":"2019-09-23T06:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T06:42:03","slug":"will-be-strong-and-brave-p-chidambaram-after-meeting-sonia-gandhi-manmohan-singh-in-tihar-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/will-be-strong-and-brave-p-chidambaram-after-meeting-sonia-gandhi-manmohan-singh-in-tihar-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will be strong and brave\u2019: P Chidambaram after meeting Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh in Tihar Jail"},"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-300232 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chidambram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/chidambram.jpg 552w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/chidambram-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/chidambram-436x420.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Union finance minister P\u2009Chidambaram who is in prison since September 5, on Monday said that he will be strong and brave. His comments came after he met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh in Tihar Jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chidambaram expressed his gratitude towards both the leaders through his Tweet which is being handled by his family on his behalf, Chidambaram said, \u201cI am honoured that Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Dr Manmohan Singh called on me today. As long as the @INCIndia party is strong and brave, I will also be strong and brave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another tweet, Chidambaram mentioned about the issues of unemployment, mob violence and the situation in Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBharat mai sab achha hai. Except for unemployment, loss of existing jobs, lower wages, mob violence, lockdown in Kashmir and throwing Opposition leaders in prison,\u201d 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;\">Chidambaram has been accused for allegedly granting Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to the INX Media group for\u00a0receiving overseas funds to the tune of over Rs 300 crore in 2007 when he was the finance minister.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Union finance minister P\u2009Chidambaram who is in prison since September 5, on Monday said that he will be strong and brave. His comments came after he met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh in Tihar Jail. Chidambaram expressed his gratitude towards both the leaders through his Tweet which is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[857,1573,1701,6477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315188"}],"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=315188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315189,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315188\/revisions\/315189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}