{"id":320440,"date":"2020-02-27T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320440"},"modified":"2020-02-27T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T08:02:26","slug":"delhi-violence-sonia-gandhi-meets-president-ram-nath-kovind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-violence-sonia-gandhi-meets-president-ram-nath-kovind\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi violence: Sonia Gandhi meets President Ram Nath Kovind"},"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-320476 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/sonia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sonia.jpg 829w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sonia-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sonia-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sonia-696x419.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/sonia-698x420.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/>A delegation of senior Congress leaders, led by party interim president Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday submitted a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sonia was accompanied by senior leaders including former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Ahmed Patel, Mallikarjun Kharge, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Ghulam Nabi Azad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday, the Congress interim president held a press conference in New Delhi over the matter and had demanded the resignation 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;\">\u201cThe Central Government, especially the Home Minister, is responsible for the current situation in Delhi. Taking responsibility, the Home Minister should resign with immediate effect,\u201d Sonia had said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Chief Minister and the Government of Delhi have also proved to be a complete failure in maintaining peace and are also responsible. The failure of both governments has made the country\u2019s capital a victim of this tragedy,\u201d she had added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to officials, the total death toll in northeast Delhi violence has risen to 34.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of senior Congress leaders, led by party interim president Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday submitted a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Sonia was accompanied by senior leaders including former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Ahmed Patel, Mallikarjun Kharge, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Ghulam Nabi Azad. On Wednesday, the Congress interim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[429,1452,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320440"}],"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=320440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320478,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320440\/revisions\/320478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}