{"id":320956,"date":"2020-03-11T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320956"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:46:06","slug":"jyotirditya-scindia-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jyotirditya-scindia-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Jyotiraditya Scindia joins BJP"},"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-320957 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/scindia-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/scindia-1.jpg 838w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/scindia-1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/scindia-1-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/scindia-1-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/scindia-1-760x420.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/>Jyotiraditya Scindia who resigned from the Congress on Tuesday joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He joined the BJP in presence of party president JP Nadda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scindia had ended his 18-year-old association with the Congress yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 22 Congress MLAs resigned after Jyotiraditya Scindia quit the Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scindia had also met PM Modi and Amit Shah in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jyotiraditya Scindia in his resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi had said it is time for him to move on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jyotiraditya Scindia who resigned from the Congress on Tuesday joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today. He joined the BJP in presence of party president JP Nadda. Scindia had ended his 18-year-old association with the Congress yesterday. At least 22 Congress MLAs resigned after Jyotiraditya Scindia quit the Congress. Scindia had also met PM Modi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2923,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[453,5251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320956"}],"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=320956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320964,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320956\/revisions\/320964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}