{"id":320070,"date":"2020-02-17T07:08:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T07:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320070"},"modified":"2020-02-17T07:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T07:10:05","slug":"arvind-kejriwal-takes-charge-as-delhi-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/arvind-kejriwal-takes-charge-as-delhi-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvind Kejriwal takes charge as Delhi Chief Minister"},"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-299539 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/kejr-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/kejr-1.jpg 466w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/kejr-1-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Monday took charge as the Chief Minister of Delhi for the third time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He took oath as Delhi CM on Sunday at Ramlila Maidan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Huge crowd was seen gathered at Ram Leela Maidan to witness yet another historic event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was invited at the event congratulated Kejriwal on taking oath as Delhi CM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI congratulate Shri @ArvindKejriwal on taking oath as Delhi\u2019s CM earlier today. Best wishes to him for a fruitful tenure,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal in his reply thanked PM Modi for his warm wishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThank you for the warm wishes sir. I wish you could come today, but I understand you were busy. We must now work together towards making Delhi a city of pride for all Indians,\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The AAP emerged victorious\u00a0with a majority of 62 seats in 70-member Delhi Assembly while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won eight seats and the Congress failed to open its account.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Monday took charge as the Chief Minister of Delhi for the third time. He took oath as Delhi CM on Sunday at Ramlila Maidan. Huge crowd was seen gathered at Ram Leela Maidan to witness yet another historic event. Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was invited at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320070"}],"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=320070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320072,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320070\/revisions\/320072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}