{"id":130980,"date":"2020-07-09T02:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T20:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=130980"},"modified":"2020-07-09T02:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T20:43:47","slug":"bjp-leader-vijay-sonam-quits-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/bjp-leader-vijay-sonam-quits-party\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP leader Vijay Sonam quits party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jul 8:<\/strong> Prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Sonam quit the party on Wednesday.<br \/>\nIn a letter addressed to the BJP state unit president, Vijay said he is disassociating from the party for the good of the party and himself.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am pleased to quit from the Bharatiya Janata Party as its primary and active membership henceforth,&#8221; he wrote.<br \/>\nBefore joining politics, Vijay was a senior government employee in the department of planning.<br \/>\nIn 2014, just before elections, he took voluntary retirement from government service and fought the assembly election on a BJP ticket against then sitting MLA Kumar Waii.<br \/>\nEarlier, he had also tendered his resignation from the post of state secretary, IT &amp; social media and all other posts assigned to him.<br \/>\nWhile responding to queries about the grounds for resignation, Vijay said he will speak about it to the media at an appropriate time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff reporter ITANAGAR, Jul 8: Prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijay Sonam quit the party on Wednesday. In a letter addressed to the BJP state unit president, Vijay said he is disassociating from the party for the good of the party and himself. &#8220;I am pleased to quit from the Bharatiya Janata Party as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}