{"id":60013,"date":"2019-04-26T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=60013"},"modified":"2019-04-26T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:32:13","slug":"senior-congress-leader-vikhe-patil-quits-as-maharashtras-lop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/senior-congress-leader-vikhe-patil-quits-as-maharashtras-lop\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Congress leader Vikhe-Patil quits as Maharashtra&#8217;s LoP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a  significant development, leader of the opposition in the Maharashtra  Legislative Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil has resigned from the  post. Vikhe-Patil had tendered his resignation after his son, Dr Sujay  Vikhe-Patil, joined the BJP and is contesting the Ahmednagar seat. In  the wake of criticism, Vikhe-Patil sent a letter to Congress president  Rahul Gandhi, resigning from the post of leader of opposition, a few  weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vikhe Patil had sent his resignation letter to the top\n party leadership, offering to quit the post of LoP, after his son Sujay\n Vikhe Patil left Congress and joined the BJP. &#8220;Vikhe Patil had offered \nto resign from the post and had also sent a letter to the Congress \npresident. This letter of resignation has been accepted by the Congress \npresident,&#8221; state Congress president Ashok Chavan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \ndevelopment comes a day before Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s rally in Maharashtra&#8217;s \nAhmednagar Friday.The monsoon session of Maharashtra Legislature will \ncommence in July and will be the last session before the state goes to \npolls later this year.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant development, leader of the opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil has resigned from the post. Vikhe-Patil had tendered his resignation after his son, Dr Sujay Vikhe-Patil, joined the BJP and is contesting the Ahmednagar seat. In the wake of criticism, Vikhe-Patil sent a letter to Congress president Rahul Gandhi, resigning [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60015,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60013\/revisions\/60015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}