{"id":333409,"date":"2021-08-16T03:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333409"},"modified":"2021-08-16T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T08:40:11","slug":"congress-leader-sushmita-dev-quits-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-leader-sushmita-dev-quits-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress leader Sushmita Dev quits party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333410\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/images-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/images-2.jpg 224w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/images-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prominent congress leader and head of Congress\u2019s women\u2019s wing, Sushmita Dev, resigned from the party on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without giving any specific reason in her letter to party president Sonia Gandhi,\u00a0 she resigned from the party\u2019s primary membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sushmita was being unhappy with the party&#8217;s performance in Assam polls. According to the sources she may be moving to the Trinamool Congress but there is no confirmation of this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said, \u201cShe was a dedicated Congress worker and perhaps is, even today. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has not received any letter from her. She\u2019s mature enough to take her decisions. I can\u2019t comment until I speak with her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prominent congress leader and head of Congress\u2019s women\u2019s wing, Sushmita Dev, resigned from the party on Sunday. Without giving any specific reason in her letter to party president Sonia Gandhi,\u00a0 she resigned from the party\u2019s primary membership. Sushmita was being unhappy with the party&#8217;s performance in Assam polls. According to the sources she may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,1961,1801],"tags":[14521,1701,14520],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333409"}],"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=333409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333412,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333409\/revisions\/333412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}