{"id":6271,"date":"2019-08-14T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T11:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:11:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:41:03","slug":"trinamool-congress-mla-actor-debashree-roy-in-bjp-office-speculations-on-her-joining-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/trinamool-congress-mla-actor-debashree-roy-in-bjp-office-speculations-on-her-joining-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinamool Congress MLA, actor Debashree Roy in BJP office; speculations on her joining BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal\u2019s Raidighi constituency lawmaker, actor Debashree Roy was spotted in the Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office today, leading to speculations that she too may join the party along with Sovon Chatterjee.<\/p>\n<p>Roy has won the Raidighi seat from Trinamool Congress ticket first in 2011 beating CPI(M) veteran Kanti Ganguly. She won the seat again in 2016. A Bengali film star, Debashree Roy is known to be close to Sovon Chatterjee, who was in charge of the party\u2019s South 24 Parganas district for many years, from where Roy has been elected.<\/p>\n<p>Sovon Chatterjee and his friend Baishakhi Banerjee are in Delhi\u2019s BJP office where both are likely to join. While that has long been speculated, Debashree Roy\u2019s presence at the same time has come as a surprise to many. There are speculations that she may not join BJP today but had gone to meet a leader today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy going to the BJP office has come as a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":6272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}