{"id":317096,"date":"2019-11-27T04:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T04:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317096"},"modified":"2019-11-27T04:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T04:26:32","slug":"rahul-gandhi-priyanka-meet-former-finance-minister-p-chidambaram-at-tihar-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-priyanka-meet-former-finance-minister-p-chidambaram-at-tihar-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka meet former finance minister P Chidambaram at 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=\" wp-image-315425 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/chidambaram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/chidambaram.jpg 472w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/chidambaram-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/chidambaram-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/chidambaram-218x150.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/>Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday met former Finance Minister P Chidambaram at Delhi\u2019s 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;\">Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi met Chidambaram at around 9 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Visit of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi came almost a month after Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Chidambaram in the 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 was first arrested on August 21 by CBI and was granted bail by the Apex Court on October 22<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Later, he was arrested by the ED in the money-laundering case and is in judicial custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to probe alleged irregularities in the grant of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval to the INX Media group.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday met former Finance Minister P Chidambaram at Delhi\u2019s Tihar jail. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi met Chidambaram at around 9 am. Visit of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi came almost a month after Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi and former Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1573,10774,579,6477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317096"}],"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=317096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317099,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317096\/revisions\/317099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}