{"id":338702,"date":"2022-07-26T04:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338702"},"modified":"2022-07-26T04:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:47:01","slug":"anmol-rattan-sidhu-resigns-as-punjabs-advocate-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/anmol-rattan-sidhu-resigns-as-punjabs-advocate-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Anmol Rattan Sidhu resigns as Punjab&#8217;s advocate general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior advocate Anmol Rattan Sidhu on Tuesday said he has resigned from the post of Punjab&#8217;s advocate general due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Sidhu said he tendered his resignation to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Senior advocate Vinod Ghai&#8217;s name is doing the rounds for the new advocate general&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p>In his brief resignation letter to the chief minister, Sidhu wrote, &#8220;I am really thankful to the party for giving me a chance to represent the office of the Advocate General, Punjab. Due to personal reasons, I will not be able to serve this prestigious office, therefore, I hereby tender my resignation, which may kindly be accepted at the earliest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sidhu was appointed as the advocate general in March. The post had fallen vacant following Deepinder Singh Patwalia&#8217;s resignation after the Punjab Assembly poll results were declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior advocate Anmol Rattan Sidhu on Tuesday said he has resigned from the post of Punjab&#8217;s advocate general due to personal reasons. Sidhu said he tendered his resignation to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on July 19. Senior advocate Vinod Ghai&#8217;s name is doing the rounds for the new advocate general&#8217;s post. In his brief resignation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338703,"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\/338702"}],"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=338702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338704,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338702\/revisions\/338704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}