{"id":1207,"date":"2020-08-17T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=34530"},"modified":"2020-08-17T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:19:21","slug":"will-indias-coolest-captain-join-the-bjp-speculation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/will-indias-coolest-captain-join-the-bjp-speculation-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Will India\u2019s coolest captain join the BJP?; speculation continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u2019s retirement from international cricket, politicians across the nation suggested him of making a political debut.<\/p>\n<p>Former central minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sanjay Paswan said to a media source that Dhoni can join the party and there has been a discussion on the issue for long. \u201cOn this issue, there has been a discussion for long, although this decision will be taken only after his retirement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>BJP chief Amit Shah had visited the cricket legend while working towards BJP\u2019s \u201cSampark for Samarthan\u201d program ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview last year BJP leader\u00a0JP Nadda had stated that\u2019 All are welcome\u2019. From then to date there is no confirmed response about Dhoni joining the party. Mahendra Singh Dhoni may enter politics to score his new innings in team NaMo.Dhoni hasn\u2019t made any statements so far.<\/p>\n<p>The elections in Dhoni\u2019s home state Jharkhand are scheduled to take place later this year. It is believed that Dhoni may even be the chief ministerial face of the BJP in the coming Jharkhand polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u2019s retirement from international cricket, politicians across the nation suggested him of making a political debut. Former\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":24335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[170,523,508,524,69,506],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bjp","tag-dhoni","tag-former-indian-cricket-captian","tag-mahi","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-ms-dhoni-retirement"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}