{"id":315667,"date":"2019-10-14T11:21:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T11:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315667"},"modified":"2019-10-14T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T11:21:25","slug":"why-was-nikamma-absent-sanjay-nirupam-attacks-milind-deora-for-skipping-rahul-gandhi-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/why-was-nikamma-absent-sanjay-nirupam-attacks-milind-deora-for-skipping-rahul-gandhi-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why was\u00a0nikamma\u00a0absent\u2019: Sanjay Nirupam attacks Milind Deora for skipping Rahul Gandhi rally"},"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-315668 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sanjay-milind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/sanjay-milind.jpg 517w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/sanjay-milind-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/>Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Monday used the word &#8220;nikamma&#8221; in a tweet at Milind Deora, which is seen as an attack on the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirupam\u2019s tweet was a response to speculation over his absence at Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s rallies in Mumbai on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said the speculations over his absence from Rahul\u2019s rally were baseless as he had informed the former Congress President about skipping the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He, however, questioned why \u201cnikamma\u201d was missing from the rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSpeculations &amp; suspicions about my absence in RG\u2019s Mumbai rallies are meaningless. Due to an important family function I was very busy whole day,rather till late night. Had informed him in advance. He is my leader &amp; he will be always the same for me. But why was Nikamma absent ?\u201d Nirupam tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, Sanjay Nirupam had declared that he would not campaign for the October 21 Maharashtra election and had made it clear that he was upset after the party had rejected candidates he had suggested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Milind Deora had replaced Nirupam as the Mumbai Congress chief before the national election. However, Deora had stepped down from the post following the party&#8217;s debacle in the general elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Monday used the word &#8220;nikamma&#8221; in a tweet at Milind Deora, which is seen as an attack on the latter. Nirupam\u2019s tweet was a response to speculation over his absence at Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s rallies in Mumbai on Sunday. He said the speculations over his absence from Rahul\u2019s rally were baseless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[11863,10772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315667"}],"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=315667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315669,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315667\/revisions\/315669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}