{"id":316288,"date":"2019-11-02T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316288"},"modified":"2019-11-02T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:38:12","slug":"is-president-in-your-pocket-shiv-sena-slams-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/is-president-in-your-pocket-shiv-sena-slams-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Is President in your pocket? Shiv Sena slams 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=\"size-full wp-image-316289 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/raut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/raut.jpg 511w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/raut-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/raut-440x420.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/>The Shiv Sena on Saturday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after one of its leaders claimed that Maharashtra may lead for President\u2019s rule if a new government is not formed by November 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Sena slammed BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar for his remarks that the state could head towards President\u2019s rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sena questioned \u2018is the President of India in your pocket?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Marathi editorial titled &#8220;Insult to Maharashtra, Is President in your pocket?&#8221; described Mungantiwar&#8217;s comments &#8220;undemocratic and unconstitutional.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Is the President under your control or President&#8217;s stamp is in the office of the BJP which will be used if party is not able to form its government and President&#8217;s rule can be imposed in Maharashtra?&#8221; the article reads<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Sena has been locked in a tug of war with ally BJP over sharing of power since the results of the Assembly elections were declared on October 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sena leader Sanjay Raut was also upset by the BJP leader\u2019s comments and asked if they were threatening MLAs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shiv Sena on Saturday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after one of its leaders claimed that Maharashtra may lead for President\u2019s rule if a new government is not formed by November 7. The Sena slammed BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar for his remarks that the state could head towards President\u2019s rule. Sena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[453,1467,513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316288"}],"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=316288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316290,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316288\/revisions\/316290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}