{"id":318784,"date":"2020-01-13T05:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T05:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318784"},"modified":"2020-01-13T05:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T05:40:52","slug":"opposition-parties-to-meet-today-on-caa-mamata-banerjee-mayawati-to-skip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/opposition-parties-to-meet-today-on-caa-mamata-banerjee-mayawati-to-skip\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition parties to meet today on CAA, Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati to skip"},"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-316534 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sonia-rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/sonia-rahul.jpg 584w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/sonia-rahul-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>The Opposition parties will hold a meeting in New Delhi on Monday to discuss the current political situation and to formulate a strategy to oppose the Citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Opposition parties led by Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi will meet at the Parliament annexe at 2 pm in New Delhi today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting, however will not be attended by West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mayawati has confirmed in a tweet that she will not be a part of the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Moreover, reports said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to stay away from the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After holding a meeting on Saturday, the CWC in a statement said, \u201cA concerted attack on Constitution, rampant unemployment, commercialization of education, unprecedented fee hikes and autocratic refusal to listen to voice and concerns of youth-students have led to spontaneous protests across the colleges and university campuses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHence, a designed conspiracy has been unleashed to attack the centres of creative and independent thinking i.e. colleges and universities,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opposition parties will hold a meeting in New Delhi on Monday to discuss the current political situation and to formulate a strategy to oppose the Citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Opposition parties led by Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi will meet at the Parliament annexe at 2 pm in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[236,4711],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318784"}],"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=318784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318786,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318784\/revisions\/318786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}