{"id":117462,"date":"2017-12-15T13:19:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=117462"},"modified":"2017-12-15T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:49:50","slug":"role-retire-said-sonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/role-retire-said-sonia\/","title":{"rendered":"My role is to retire said Sonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day before son Rahul Gandhi replaces her as Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi, who has led the party for nearly 20 years, told media , &#8220;My role now is to retire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the party prepares for Rahul Gandhi to formally be made President tomorrow, there has been talk of whether his mother would formally be made a sort of political chairman emeritus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs Gandhi told today that for years, it has been Rahul Gandhi, age 47, who has been helping decide vital party issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48555 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/telugu.greattelangaana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sonia-rahul_650x400_81449639129.jpg\" alt=\"My role is to retire said Sonia\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has led the Congress campaign in Gujarat against Prime Minister Narendra Modi; exit polls show the PM and his party will easily retain his home state, while also snatching Himachal Pradesh from the Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So Rahul Gandhi is likely to begin his presidency with two new electoral defeats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs Gandhi took over as Congress chief in 1998, seven years after her husband Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day before son Rahul Gandhi replaces her as Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi, who has led the party for nearly 20 years, told media , &#8220;My role now is to retire.&#8221; As the party prepares for Rahul Gandhi to formally be made President tomorrow, there has been talk of whether his mother would formally be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[17650,60383,4367,94,60381,60382,11141,305,21625,17],"class_list":["post-117462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-congress-chief","tag-congress-chief-in-1998","tag-gujarat","tag-narendra-modi","tag-nearly-20-years","tag-political-chairman","tag-prime-minister","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-rajiv-gandhi","tag-sonia-gandhi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sonia-gandhi_650x400_61461677758.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}