{"id":324706,"date":"2020-07-17T07:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324706"},"modified":"2020-07-17T07:41:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:41:25","slug":"congress-suspends-two-rebel-mlas-over-leaked-audio-tapes-sogs-fir-against-union-minister-gajendra-shekhawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-suspends-two-rebel-mlas-over-leaked-audio-tapes-sogs-fir-against-union-minister-gajendra-shekhawat\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress suspends two rebel MLAs over leaked audio tapes; SoG\u2019s FIR against union minister Gajendra Shekhawat"},"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-324707 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/surjewala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/surjewala.jpg 686w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/surjewala-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/>The Congress on Friday suspended two MLAs, Bhawarlal Lal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh, from the primary membership of the party for allegedly conspiring with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party also demanded the arrest of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat for his alleged role in horse-trading to topple the Rajasthan government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the media, Congress Spokesperson\u00a0Randeep Singh Surjewala said\u00a0two audio recordings have surfaced in which Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma, BJP leaders Shekhawat and Sanjay Jain were purportedly talking about the conspiracy to topple Rajasthan Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Yesterday, shocking tapes were aired by the media in which Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, BJP leader Sanjay Jain and Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma spoke about bribing MLAs and bringing down the Rajasthan government,&#8221; Surjewala said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma, meanwhile, denied the allegations. He called the audio tapes fabricated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Surjewala said that Bhanwar Lal Sharma, Vishvendra Singh has been suspended from the primary membership of the party. The party has also issued show-cause notices to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The SoG\u00a0of Rajasthan Police has registered an\u00a0FIR after Congress&#8217; allegation of horse-trading in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday suspended two MLAs, Bhawarlal Lal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh, from the primary membership of the party for allegedly conspiring with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The party also demanded the arrest of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat for his alleged role in horse-trading to topple the Rajasthan government. Addressing the media, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[236,1478,2311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324706"}],"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=324706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324708,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324706\/revisions\/324708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}