{"id":338416,"date":"2022-07-12T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T09:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338416"},"modified":"2022-07-12T06:36:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:06:40","slug":"himachal-ex-bjp-chief-khimi-ram-joins-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/himachal-ex-bjp-chief-khimi-ram-joins-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Himachal ex-BJP chief Khimi Ram joins Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-338417\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Himachal-ex-BJP-chief-Khimi-Ram-joins-Congress.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/07\/Himachal-ex-BJP-chief-Khimi-Ram-joins-Congress.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/07\/Himachal-ex-BJP-chief-Khimi-Ram-joins-Congress-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/07\/Himachal-ex-BJP-chief-Khimi-Ram-joins-Congress-631x420.jpeg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Himachal Pradesh BJP president Khimi Ram on Tuesday joined the Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Ram, a former minister and deputy speaker in the state, said he takes pride in joining the party that helped the country attain freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not joining the Congress out of any anger towards the BJP. I have taken a well-thought out decision to take the Congress forward in Himachal Pradesh,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ram said he is confident that the Congress will be able to form the government in the state as there is a lot of corruption, unemployment, inflation and pending employee issues including those related to the pension scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will bring these issues before the people of the state and help form the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>AICC in-charge for Himachal Rajiv Shukla welcomed him into the Congress fold, and said it is an indication of the winds blowing in the state.<\/p>\n<p>AICC Secretaries Sudhir Sharma and Tejinder Bittu were present on the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Himachal Pradesh BJP president Khimi Ram on Tuesday joined the Congress. Ram, a former minister and deputy speaker in the state, said he takes pride in joining the party that helped the country attain freedom. &#8220;I am not joining the Congress out of any anger towards the BJP. I have taken a well-thought out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338417,"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\/338416"}],"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=338416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338418,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338416\/revisions\/338418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}