{"id":182980,"date":"2022-02-01T00:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=182980"},"modified":"2022-02-01T00:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:03:22","slug":"bjp-mla-two-other-leaders-join-cong-in-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/bjp-mla-two-other-leaders-join-cong-in-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP MLA, two other leaders join Cong in Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imphal, Jan 31 (PTI) BJP MLA P Saratchandra on Monday joined the Congress, a day after he quit the saffron camp, having failed to secure a ticket for Manipur assembly polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior BJP leaders N Biren and N Joykumar also followed suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saratchandra, who represents Moirang seat, accused the BJP of favouring newcomers to old-timers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was apparently referring to M Prithivraj, who switched over from the Congress to the BJP last year, and has been given the saffron camp&#8217;s ticket from Moirang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prithviraj had lost to Saratchandra by less than 400 votes in the last elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biren, a former minister, and Joykumar also quit the saffron party after he was denied candidature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress election in-charge Bhakta Charan Das welcomed all three of them, and asserted that the party would be bagging 40 of the 60 seats in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two other BJP leaders Thangjam Arunkumar and Th Brinda joined the JD(U) during the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The JD(U) had recently got a shot in the arm as legislator K Joykishan and ex-minister Abdul Nasir joined the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal, Jan 31 (PTI) BJP MLA P Saratchandra on Monday joined the Congress, a day after he quit the saffron camp, having failed to secure a ticket for Manipur assembly polls. Senior BJP leaders N Biren and N Joykumar also followed suit. Saratchandra, who represents Moirang seat, accused the BJP of favouring newcomers to old-timers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-182980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182980","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=182980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}