{"id":339599,"date":"2022-09-19T03:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T08:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=339599"},"modified":"2022-09-19T04:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:11:05","slug":"capt-amarinders-joining-bjp-is-wrong-decision-deepender-hooda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/capt-amarinders-joining-bjp-is-wrong-decision-deepender-hooda\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt Amarinder\u2019s  joining BJP is wrong decision: Deepender Hooda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda on Monday termed former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh&#8217;s decision to join the BJP as a wrong decision as after the farmers&#8217; protest it will not be appreciated by the people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">Amarinder Singh was asked to step down as the Chief Minister of Punjab in September last year by the Congress following a power tussle within the party, and in subsequent Assembly election the party was wiped out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">Ahead of his joining the BJP, Singh met the party president J.P. Nadda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">Speculation of Amarinder Singh joining the BJP had grown stronger after he met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on September 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">&#8220;Had a very productive meeting with Hon&#8217;ble Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Discussed various issues pertaining to national security, the rising cases of narco-terrorism in Punjab and the future roadmap for the overall holistic development of Punjab, &#8221; Singh had tweeted after meeting Shah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">Singh had floated his own party after quitting the Congress last year citing humiliation by the grand-old party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">The two-time chief minister of Punjab had fought the Assembly elections in the state earlier this year in alliance with the BJP as well as Akali Dal (Sanyukt).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">His party &#8212; Punjab Lok Congress &#8212; had failed to get even a single seat during the Assembly elections. Amarinder\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">Singh himself lost from his hometurf Patiala urban constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda on Monday termed former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh&#8217;s decision to join the BJP as a wrong decision as after the farmers&#8217; protest it will not be appreciated by the people. Amarinder Singh was asked to step down as the Chief Minister of Punjab in September last year by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":339600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339599"}],"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=339599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339601,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339599\/revisions\/339601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/339600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}