{"id":15864,"date":"2021-08-17T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=15864"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:52:20","slug":"no-issues-with-sonia-rahul-gandhi-former-cong-mp-sushmita-dev-after-joining-trinamool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/no-issues-with-sonia-rahul-gandhi-former-cong-mp-sushmita-dev-after-joining-trinamool\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo issues with Sonia &#038; Rahul Gandhi\u201d: former Cong MP Sushmita Dev, after joining Trinamool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sushmita Dev, who resigned from the Indian National Congress on Sunday and joined the Trinamool Congress the following day, did not elaborate on her reasons for the switch. She however, said that she has \u201cno issues with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Dev today said at a press conference that \u201cI have explained it in my resignation letter (to the party president).\u201d\u00a0She added: \u201cI had a long association with the Congress, and the party gave me a lot of opportunities. In my 30 years in politics, I haven&#8217;t demanded anything from the Congress high command. I hope the Congress president forgives me for my shortcomings\u201d. Sushmita Dev is daughter of veteran Congress leader Santosh Mohan Deb.<\/p>\n<p>She joined the Trinamool Congress on Monday, and may be pitched as the face of the party in Assam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sushmita Dev, who resigned from the Indian National Congress on Sunday and joined the Trinamool Congress the following day, did not elaborate on her reasons for the switch. She however, said that she has \u201cno issues with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi\u201d. Dev today said at a press conference that \u201cI have explained it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":15865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,43,47,582,56,111,3743,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-abhishek-banerjee","9":"tag-assam","10":"tag-congress","11":"tag-cover-story","12":"tag-rahul-gandhi","13":"tag-sonia-gandhi","14":"tag-sushmita-dev","15":"tag-top-story","16":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15866,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15864\/revisions\/15866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15864"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=15864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}