{"id":319502,"date":"2020-01-29T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319502"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:45:40","slug":"prashant-kishor-pavan-varma-expelled-from-janata-dal-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prashant-kishor-pavan-varma-expelled-from-janata-dal-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Prashant Kishor, Pavan Varma expelled from Janata Dal (United)"},"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=\" wp-image-319503 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/prashant-pavan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/prashant-pavan.jpg 495w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/prashant-pavan-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/>The Janata Dal-United on Wednesday expelled political strategist and party&#8217;s vice president Prashant Kishor and leader Pavan Varma from the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kishor in reply to the JD(U) action thanked Nitish Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThank you\u00a0@NitishKumar. My best wishes to you to retain the chair of Chief Minister of Bihar. God bless you,\u201d Kishor tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after the party&#8217;s senior leaders had raised questions about Nitish Kumar in their public remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, Kishor hit back at Kumar\u2019s claim that he was inducted into the party on the recommendation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kishor in a tweet asked Nitish Kumar why he did not have the courage to listen to \u2018someone recommended by Amit Shah\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c@NitishKumar what a fall for you to lie about how and why you made me join JDU!! Poor attempt on your part to try and make my colour same as yours! And if you are telling the truth who would believe that you still have courage not to listen to someone recommended by @AmitShah,\u201d Kishor had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a recent letter posted by Pavan Varma on social media, he had sought clarity from Kumar over aligning with the saffron party in the Delhi elections, referring to the Bihar chief minister\u2019s \u201cprivate apprehensions\u201d on how the BJP is leading the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Janata Dal-United on Wednesday expelled political strategist and party&#8217;s vice president Prashant Kishor and leader Pavan Varma from the party. Kishor in reply to the JD(U) action thanked Nitish Kumar. \u201cThank you\u00a0@NitishKumar. My best wishes to you to retain the chair of Chief Minister of Bihar. God bless you,\u201d Kishor tweeted. This came after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[3531,8949,5039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319502"}],"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=319502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319504,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319502\/revisions\/319504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}