{"id":68359,"date":"2019-06-01T02:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=68359"},"modified":"2019-06-01T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T20:50:14","slug":"rijiju-replaces-rathore-as-sports-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/01\/rijiju-replaces-rathore-as-sports-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Rijiju replaces Rathore as sports minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, May 31:<\/strong> Kiren Rijiju was on Friday appointed as the new union sports minister. He replaced Olympic medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.<br \/>\nAlong with the independent charge of sports &amp; youth affairs, Rijiju was also named as the MoS for minority affairs.<br \/>\n&#8220;My heartfelt gratitude to PM Narendra Modi for reposing faith in me to be a member of his council of ministers. I sincerely thank Amit Shahji along with karyakartas and well-wishers across India,&#8221; Rijiju tweeted on Thursday after taking oath.<br \/>\n&#8220;For me, leadership is not about power and privilege, it is about responsibility,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nRathore was not inducted in the list of ministers who took the oath of office and secrecy on the forecourt of the Rashtapati Bhavan on Thursday.<br \/>\nRijiju, 47, who is the BJP&#8217;s face in the Northeast, had served as the MoS for home affairs. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, May 31: Kiren Rijiju was on Friday appointed as the new union sports minister. He replaced Olympic medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. Along with the independent charge of sports &amp; youth affairs, Rijiju was also named as the MoS for minority affairs. &#8220;My heartfelt gratitude to PM Narendra Modi for reposing faith in me [&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-68359","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\/68359","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=68359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}