{"id":10836,"date":"2021-09-18T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=10836"},"modified":"2021-09-18T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:37:41","slug":"tharoor-calls-for-quick-change-of-leadership-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/09\/18\/tharoor-calls-for-quick-change-of-leadership-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Tharoor Calls for Quick Change of Leadership in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor today said there should be a new leadership of the Congress party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None has spoken a word against Sonia Gandhi, but she herself is saying she wishes to step down and hence a new leadership should take over quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Rahul Gandhi wishes to take over, it should happen quickly,&#8221; said Tharoor to the media as he arrived near Ernakulam on a day that saw the party&#8217;s Punjab unit implode.<\/p>\n<p>He said if the Congress has to come back, things should fall in place quickly and should get ready to face the elections and for that it should happen now.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally by now, various feeder organisation of the Congress party have been firmly demanding that Rahul Gandhi should take over as the new president.<\/p>\n<p>Tharoor was part of the Group of 23 Congress leaders, who last year wrote a letter to Sonia asking for sweeping changes in the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor today said there should be a new leadership of the Congress party. &#8220;None has spoken a word against Sonia Gandhi, but she herself is saying she wishes to step down and hence a new leadership should take over quickly. &#8220;If Rahul Gandhi wishes to take over, it should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10839,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions\/10839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}