{"id":348567,"date":"2024-04-26T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=348567"},"modified":"2024-04-26T21:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:17:30","slug":"punjab-congress-chief-challenges-bjp-to-nominate-state-prez-jakhar-to-contest-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-congress-chief-challenges-bjp-to-nominate-state-prez-jakhar-to-contest-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Congress chief challenges BJP to nominate state prez Jakhar to contest polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Raja-wring-and-sunil-Jakar-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Raja-wring-and-sunil-Jakar-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Raja-wring-and-sunil-Jakar-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Raja-wring-and-sunil-Jakar-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Raja-wring-and-sunil-Jakar-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Raja-wring-and-sunil-Jakar-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Raja-wring-and-sunil-Jakar-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Raja-wring-and-sunil-Jakar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chandigarh: <\/strong>Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Friday challenged the BJP to nominate its state unit chief Sunil Jakhar to contest from any constituency and he would contest against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am confident the people will not give the BJP a single seat in Punjab. I extend an invitation to the BJP to nominate its leader, Sunil Jakhar, to contest from any constituency in Punjab. Should he choose to do so, I will contest against him and secure a resounding victory, \u201d he told the media here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the INDIA bloc, Warring said, \u201cPunjab\u2019s distinct identity necessitated the avoidance of an alliance with AAP and this has been duly acknowledged. The unique challenges faced by Punjab preclude the possibility of any collaboration with AAP under any circumstance. Punjab Congress leaders and candidates will not share platforms with AAP counterparts. Despite AAP&#8217;s claims of a 13-0 victory, reality will unveil a starkly different narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the BJP and AAP in Punjab have made claims, but the time has come for a reality check. \u201cOnly the Congress party can effectively address the concerns of the people, a fact recognised by the electorates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Friday challenged the BJP to nominate its state unit chief Sunil Jakhar to contest from any constituency and he would contest against him. \u201cI am confident the people will not give the BJP a single seat in Punjab. I extend an invitation to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":348568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[16188,16003,17378,16002,15754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348567"}],"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=348567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348569,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348567\/revisions\/348569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/348568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}