{"id":320942,"date":"2020-03-10T07:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T07:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320942"},"modified":"2020-03-10T07:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T07:05:57","slug":"jyotiraditya-scindia-resigns-from-congress-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jyotiraditya-scindia-resigns-from-congress-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Jyotiraditya Scindia resigns from Congress party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/jyotiraditya-scindia-resigns-from-congress-party\/scindia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-320943\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-320943 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/scindia-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/scindia-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/scindia.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a>In a major setback for Congress party in Madhya Pradesh,\u00a0Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday tendered his resignation to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In a letter addressed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Scindia wrote, &#8220;Having been a primary member of the congress party for the last 18 years, it is now time for me to move on. I am tendering my resignation from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress and as you well know, this is a path that has been drawing itself out over the last year.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;While my aim and purpose remain the same as it has always been from the very beginning, to serve the people of my state and country, I believe I am unable to do this anymore within this party,&#8221; Scindia added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Scindia further said, &#8220;To reflect and realise the aspirations of my people and my workers I believe it is best that I now look ahead at a fresh start.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;I would like to thank you and through you all my party colleagues for providing me with a platform to have served the nation,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Scindia tweeted the image of this letter on his official twitter handle after meeting Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi at the latters residence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major setback for Congress party in Madhya Pradesh,\u00a0Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday tendered his resignation to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.\u00a0 In a letter addressed to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Scindia wrote, &#8220;Having been a primary member of the congress party for the last 18 years, it is now time for me to move on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":320943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,236,5251,1043,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320942"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320945,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320942\/revisions\/320945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}