{"id":320981,"date":"2020-03-12T05:40:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T05:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320981"},"modified":"2020-03-12T05:40:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T05:40:41","slug":"bjp-leader-jyotiraditya-scindia-meets-defence-minister-rajnath-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-leader-jyotiraditya-scindia-meets-defence-minister-rajnath-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia meets Defence Minister Rajnath Singh"},"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-320982 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rajnath-scindia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/rajnath-scindia.jpg 786w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/rajnath-scindia-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/rajnath-scindia-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/rajnath-scindia-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/rajnath-scindia-696x490.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/rajnath-scindia-597x420.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/>BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday met Union Defence Minister and party leader Rajnath Singh at his residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajnath Singh welcomed Scindia to the BJP and said his joining will help in further strengthening the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMet with Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia today. I welcome him to the BJP. His joining will help in further strengthening the party. I extend my best wishes to him in all his endeavours. @JM_Scindia,\u201d Rajnath tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scindia who resigned from the Congress on Tuesday joined BJP on Wednesday.<\/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;\">After joining the party Scindia in a tweet thanked BJP leaders for accepting and welcoming him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThanking @JPNadda ji, @narendramodiji, @AmitShahji &amp; members of the BJP family for accepting&amp; welcoming me. It\u2019s not just a turning point in my life,but also an opportunity for me to continue my commitment towards public service under the inspirational leadership of PM Modi ji,\u201d Scindia tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday met Union Defence Minister and party leader Rajnath Singh at his residence. Rajnath Singh welcomed Scindia to the BJP and said his joining will help in further strengthening the party. \u201cMet with Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia today. I welcome him to the BJP. His joining will help in further strengthening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[5251,2597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320981"}],"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=320981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320983,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320981\/revisions\/320983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}