{"id":337595,"date":"2022-05-18T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T05:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=337595"},"modified":"2022-05-18T01:39:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:09:25","slug":"gujarat-patidar-leader-hardik-patel-quits-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-patidar-leader-hardik-patel-quits-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat Patidar leader Hardik Patel quits Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-337596\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Gujarat-Patidar-leader-Hardik-Patel-quits-Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/05\/Gujarat-Patidar-leader-Hardik-Patel-quits-Congress.jpg 900w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/05\/Gujarat-Patidar-leader-Hardik-Patel-quits-Congress-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/05\/Gujarat-Patidar-leader-Hardik-Patel-quits-Congress-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/05\/Gujarat-Patidar-leader-Hardik-Patel-quits-Congress-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/05\/Gujarat-Patidar-leader-Hardik-Patel-quits-Congress-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gujarat Patidar quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel on Wednesday said he has resigned as the Gujarat Congress working president as well as from the party&#8217;s primary membership.<br \/>\nPatel submitted his resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.<br \/>\n&#8220;Today, after mustering courage, I am resigning from the party post and primary membership of the Congress. I hope my followers and people of Gujarat will welcome my step. I believe that I will be able to serve the state better after this step,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat Patidar quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel on Wednesday said he has resigned as the Gujarat Congress working president as well as from the party&#8217;s primary membership. Patel submitted his resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi. &#8220;Today, after mustering courage, I am resigning from the party post and primary membership of the Congress. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":337596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337595"}],"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=337595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337597,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337595\/revisions\/337597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/337596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}