{"id":200936,"date":"2022-09-21T00:07:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=200936"},"modified":"2022-09-21T00:07:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:37:12","slug":"bhaichung-bhutia-becomes-new-president-of-hamro-sikkim-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/21\/bhaichung-bhutia-becomes-new-president-of-hamro-sikkim-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhaichung Bhutia becomes new president of Hamro Sikkim Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gangtok, Sep 20 (PTI) Legendary footballer Bhaichung Bhutia was on Tuesday elected as the new president of the Hamro Sikkim Party (HSP).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 45-year-old former India captain was elected unanimously by party leaders and members at a national conference held here, HSP general secretary Biraj Adhikari said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The HSP is confident that Bhutia will now carry the mantle of leading the fight to rid Sikkim of the present corrupt misrule and provide a transparent and responsive government to the people if elected to power in the future,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhutia said he will strive to serve the people of Sikkim and represent their hopes and aspirations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We will work tirelessly towards ensuring social equality and justice and create endless opportunities for every Sikkimese to achieve the true potential of our state,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bhutia thanked outgoing HSP president Bina Basnett for successfully completing her tenure of three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangtok, Sep 20 (PTI) Legendary footballer Bhaichung Bhutia was on Tuesday elected as the new president of the Hamro Sikkim Party (HSP). The 45-year-old former India captain was elected unanimously by party leaders and members at a national conference held here, HSP general secretary Biraj Adhikari said. &#8220;The HSP is confident that Bhutia will now [&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-200936","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\/200936","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=200936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}