{"id":5287,"date":"2020-12-01T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2020-12-01T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:17:12","slug":"urmila-matondkar-to-join-shiv-sena-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2020\/12\/01\/urmila-matondkar-to-join-shiv-sena-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Urmila Matondkar to join Shiv Sena today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood actor Urmila Matondkar, who had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate and quit the party later, will join the Shiv Sena on Tuesday, a party functionary said, PTI reported.<\/p>\n<p>Harshal Pradhan, a close aide of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, on Sunday said that Ms Matondkar will join the party in the chief minister\u2019s presence. Urmila Matondkar\u2019s name has been forwarded to Maharashtra Governor BS Koshyari by the Shiv Sena for nomination to the Legislative Council from the governor\u2019s quota. The names of 11 others have also been forwarded by the three-party Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government for their nomination from the governor\u2019s quota.<\/p>\n<p>The governor is yet to approve the list of 12 names.<\/p>\n<p>Urmila Matondkar had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Mumbai North constituency as a Congress candidate. However, she later quit the party over the functioning of Congress\u2019 Mumbai unit.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, she had criticised actor Kangana Ranaut for comparing Mumbai with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and on the nepotism issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood actor Urmila Matondkar, who had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate and quit the party later, will join the Shiv Sena on Tuesday, a party functionary said, PTI reported. Harshal Pradhan, a close aide of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, on Sunday said that Ms Matondkar will join the party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5287\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}