{"id":22829,"date":"2024-03-02T07:04:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T07:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/gautam-gambhir-urges-bjp-chief-to-relieve-him-of-political-duties-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T07:04:56","slug":"gautam-gambhir-urges-bjp-chief-to-relieve-him-of-political-duties-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/gautam-gambhir-urges-bjp-chief-to-relieve-him-of-political-duties-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Gambhir urges BJP chief to relieve him of political duties &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-518935\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Cricketer Gautam Gambhir on Saturday urged BJP President J.P. Nadda to relieve him of political duties so that he can focus on his cricketing commitments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have requested Hon\u2019ble Party President @JPNadda ji to relieve me of my political duties,\u201d Gambhir wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sincerely thank Hon\u2019ble PM @narendramodi ji and Hon\u2019ble HM @AmitShah ji for giving me the opportunity to serve the people. Jai Hind!,\u201d the cricketer wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>On March 22, 2019, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the party\u2019s candidate from East Delhi in the 2019 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Gambhir won the 2019 elections by 695,109 votes against Atishi and Arvinder Singh Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>He received the Padma Shri from the Central government in 2019, the fourth-highest civilian award in India.<\/p>\n<p>Under Gambhir\u2019s captaincy, Kolkata Knight Riders won their first IPL title in 2012 and went on to win the title again in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>As for his new cricketing commitments, Gambhir will be seen as a mentor to the Kokatta Night Riders in the upcoming Indian Premium League season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(IANS) <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; New Delhi: Cricketer Gautam Gambhir on Saturday urged BJP President J.P. Nadda to relieve him of political duties so that he can focus on his cricketing commitments. \u201cI have requested Hon\u2019ble Party President @JPNadda ji to relieve me of my political duties,\u201d Gambhir wrote on X. \u201cI sincerely thank Hon\u2019ble PM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22831,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22829\/revisions\/22831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}