{"id":320208,"date":"2020-02-19T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320208"},"modified":"2020-02-19T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T09:47:37","slug":"centres-pressure-claimed-tapas-pauls-life-mamata-banerjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/centres-pressure-claimed-tapas-pauls-life-mamata-banerjee\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Centre\u2019s pressure claimed Tapas Paul&#8217;s life\u2019: Mamata Banerjee"},"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-305725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee.jpg 715w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at Centre for the death of Trinamool Congress leader and actor Tapas Paul, saying pressure created by central agencies claimed his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Central government&#8217;s pressure has claimed many lives. \u201cThree people died because of the centre&#8217;s vendetta politics,\u201d Mamata said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Banerjee, while paying tributes to Paul, alleged that another TMC leader Sultan Ahmed had also died of cardiac arrest as he was tense after being named an accused in the Narada case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tapas Paul passed away at the age of 61 in Mumbai on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In December 2016, Paul was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Rose Valley chit-fund scam. He was released after serving a 13 months sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at Centre for the death of Trinamool Congress leader and actor Tapas Paul, saying pressure created by central agencies claimed his life. Central government&#8217;s pressure has claimed many lives. \u201cThree people died because of the centre&#8217;s vendetta politics,\u201d Mamata said. Banerjee, while paying tributes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320208"}],"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=320208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320226,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320208\/revisions\/320226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}