{"id":319028,"date":"2020-01-20T06:12:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319028"},"modified":"2020-01-20T06:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T06:13:48","slug":"veteran-congress-leader-shamsher-surjewala-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/veteran-congress-leader-shamsher-surjewala-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Congress leader Shamsher Surjewala passes away"},"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-319029 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/shamsher.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/shamsher.jpg 532w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/shamsher-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/shamsher-428x420.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/>Former Haryana Congress chief Shamsher Singh Surjewala on Monday passed away following a brief illness, party leaders said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He breathed his last at AIIMS hospital in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 87-year-old leader had served as a Minister in the Haryana government and was also elected to the Rajya Sabha once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is the father of Congress national media in-charge and national spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His cremation will take place today afternoon in Narwana<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Haryana Congress chief Shamsher Singh Surjewala on Monday passed away following a brief illness, party leaders said. He breathed his last at AIIMS hospital in New Delhi. The 87-year-old leader had served as a Minister in the Haryana government and was also elected to the Rajya Sabha once. He is the father of Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,2014],"tags":[12417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319028"}],"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=319028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319032,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319028\/revisions\/319032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}