{"id":109119,"date":"2022-06-16T14:09:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T08:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Thenews21.com\/?p=109119"},"modified":"2022-06-16T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T08:39:57","slug":"chidambaram-resigns-from-maharashtra-rs-seat-after-getting-elected-from-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/chidambaram-resigns-from-maharashtra-rs-seat-after-getting-elected-from-tamil-nadu","title":{"rendered":"Chidambaram resigns from Maharashtra RS seat after getting elected from Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>@the_news_21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday resigned from his Rajya Sabha seat from Maharashtra after he was elected to the Upper House from his home state of Tamil Nadu for a fresh term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chidambaram was among the 41 winners declared elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Following my election to the Rajya Sabha from the state of Tamil Nadu, I am required to resign my seat from the state of Maharashtra. Accordingly, today I tendered my resignation from the seat from the state of Maharashtra,&#8221; Chidambaram said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Hon&#8217;ble Chairman of the Rajya Sabha has accepted my resignation. I was honoured to represent the state of Maharashtra. I wish the people of Maharashtra the very best in the future, peace and prosperity,&#8221; the former Union minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@the_news_21 Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday resigned from his Rajya Sabha seat from Maharashtra after he was elected to the Upper House from his home state of Tamil Nadu for a fresh term. Chidambaram was among the 41 winners declared elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha earlier this month. &#8220;Following my election to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":89628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,47696,65,2395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109120,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109119\/revisions\/109120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}