{"id":9284,"date":"2016-09-02T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=9284"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:46:08","slug":"sidhu-for-awaaz-e-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/sidhu-for-awaaz-e-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidhu for Awaaz-e-Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">Navjot Singh Sidhu is set to launch\u00a0his own party Awaaz-e-Punjab along with hockey player-turned-politician Pargat Singh and the Bains brothers, Simarjit Singh Bains and Balwinder Singh Bains.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<p>Independent MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, talking about the decision to float a new party Aawaaz-e-Punjab with Sidhu taking the lead, told\u00a0Sidhu is passionate about politics and is pained to see the current drug abuse problem in Punjab. Bains said that he is confident that the people of Punjab will support them.Navjot Singh Sidhu. PTI<\/p>\n<p>After Sidhu resigned from the Rajya Sabha in July there were reports suggesting that the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/politics\/navjot-singh-sidhu-resigns-from-rajya-sabha-will-he-join-aap-2900192.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/politics\/navjot-singh-sidhu-resigns-from-rajya-sabha-will-he-join-aap-2900192.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1472899331267000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEtwvE118VogSK301Z3YJEpPkkvKA\">erstwhile BJP MP will join the Aam Aadmi Party<\/a>\u00a0(AAP) and become the party&#8217;s\u00a0chief ministerial candidate in poll-bound Punjab.\u00a0In his resignation letter, Sidhu said there was closure of every window. &#8220;At behest of PM, I had accepted RS nomination for welfare of Punjab. With closure of every window leading to Punjab the purpose stands defeated, now a mere burden. I prefer not to carry it,&#8221; he had said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navjot Singh Sidhu is set to launch\u00a0his own party Awaaz-e-Punjab along with hockey player-turned-politician Pargat Singh and the Bains brothers, Simarjit Singh Bains and Balwinder Singh Bains. Independent MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, talking about the decision to float a new party Aawaaz-e-Punjab with Sidhu taking the lead, told\u00a0Sidhu is passionate about politics and is pained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[3829,3832,3833,3828,3830,3827,3831],"class_list":["post-9284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-awaaz-e-punjab","tag-balwinder-singh-bains","tag-mla-simarjit-singh","tag-navjot-singh-sidhu","tag-pargat-singh","tag-sidhu-for-awaaz-e-punjab","tag-simarjit-singh-bains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sidhu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284","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=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}