{"id":316294,"date":"2019-11-02T10:29:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T10:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316294"},"modified":"2019-11-02T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T10:29:23","slug":"haryana-former-cm-bhupinder-singh-hooda-appointed-as-congress-legislature-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/haryana-former-cm-bhupinder-singh-hooda-appointed-as-congress-legislature-party-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana: Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda appointed as Congress legislature party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"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-308506 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hooda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/hooda.jpg 601w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/hooda-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/>Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was appointed as the leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AICC general secretary for Haryana Ghulam Nabi Azad made the announcement on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the appointment, Hooda will be the Leader of Opposition in the newly-constituted assembly, Azad said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Sonia Gandhi picked Hooda after the newly elected MLAs on Friday failed to reach a consensus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahead of the Assembly election in Haryana, the Congress high command had replaced Ashok Tanwar with Selja as the state party chief and Hooda had replaced Choudhary as the CLP leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the 90-member assembly, the Congress has 31 MLAs, the strength of BJP is 40, its ally Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) 10 and others have registered 9.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was appointed as the leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in the state. AICC general secretary for Haryana Ghulam Nabi Azad made the announcement on Saturday. With the appointment, Hooda will be the Leader of Opposition in the newly-constituted assembly, Azad said. Congress president Sonia Gandhi picked Hooda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[2305,236,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316294"}],"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=316294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316296,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316294\/revisions\/316296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}