{"id":321094,"date":"2020-03-17T06:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321094"},"modified":"2020-03-17T06:10:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T06:10:58","slug":"congress-questions-former-cji-ranjan-gogois-nomination-to-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-questions-former-cji-ranjan-gogois-nomination-to-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress questions former CJI Ranjan Gogoi\u2019s nomination to Rajya Sabha"},"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-315401 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/surjewala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/surjewala.jpg 489w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/surjewala-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/surjewala-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/>The Congress on Tuesday questioned the nomination of former chief justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi as a Rajya Sabha candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, \u201cJustice Lokur rightly summarises it &#8211; Has the last bastion fallen?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surjewala in another tweet said: \u201cDid PM Modi consider the advice of his former colleague &amp; Law Minister and Finance Minister, Late Sh Arun Jaitley before recommending ex-CJI, Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All India Mahila Congress also tweeted, \u201cRanjan Gogoi\u2019s RS nomination: Has last bastion fallen, asks Justice Lokur The country agrees with you, Justice Lokur. Sad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi had been nominated to Rajya Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi yesterday in a tweet said, \u00a0&#8220;Is it quid pro quo? How will people have faith in the Independence of Judges ? Many Questions&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Tuesday questioned the nomination of former chief justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi as a Rajya Sabha candidate. Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, \u201cJustice Lokur rightly summarises it &#8211; Has the last bastion fallen?\u201d Surjewala in another tweet said: \u201cDid PM Modi consider the advice of his former colleague &amp; Law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236,2311,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321094"}],"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=321094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321095,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321094\/revisions\/321095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}