{"id":320959,"date":"2020-03-11T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320959"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:30:05","slug":"dk-shivakumar-appointed-as-karnataka-congress-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/dk-shivakumar-appointed-as-karnataka-congress-president\/","title":{"rendered":"DK Shivakumar appointed as Karnataka Congress president"},"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-315955 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shivakumar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shivakumar.jpg 665w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shivakumar-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shivakumar-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/shivakumar-571x420.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/>DK Shivakumar was on Wednesday appointed as Karnataka&#8217;s Congress President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed D.K. Shivakumar as the president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC),&#8221; Karnataka Congress said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Party&#8217;s state unit leaders Eshwar Khandre, Satish Jharkiholi and Saleem Ahammed have been appointed working presidents of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Siddaramaiah will continue as the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader and opposition leader in the state legislative assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, former MLA Anil Chaudhary has been appointed as the President of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DK Shivakumar was on Wednesday appointed as Karnataka&#8217;s Congress President. &#8220;Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed D.K. Shivakumar as the president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC),&#8221; Karnataka Congress said in a tweet. Party&#8217;s state unit leaders Eshwar Khandre, Satish Jharkiholi and Saleem Ahammed have been appointed working presidents of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[236,2078,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320959"}],"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=320959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320963,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320959\/revisions\/320963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}