{"id":56411,"date":"2024-03-20T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=56411"},"modified":"2024-03-20T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:11:13","slug":"navjot-singh-sidhu-surprises-congress-on-the-eve-of-the-election-by-announcing-his-return-to-the-commentary-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/navjot-singh-sidhu-surprises-congress-on-the-eve-of-the-election-by-announcing-his-return-to-the-commentary-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Navjot Singh Sidhu surprises Congress on the eve of the election by announcing his return to the commentary box."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patiala, 20 march (press ki taquat bureau):\u00a0<\/strong> Navjot Singh Sidhu, the flamboyant cricketer-turned-politician, is set to return to the commentary box for the upcoming IPL after a hiatus of over ten years.<\/p>\n<p>His comeback as a commentator coincides with the crucial Lok Sabha elections where his party, Congress, is facing a tough battle against the BJP. 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His comeback as a commentator coincides with the crucial Lok Sabha elections where his party, Congress, is facing a tough battle against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,20,9919,1],"tags":[32253],"class_list":["post-56411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-india","category-politics","category-punjab","tag-presskitaquat-latestnews-topnews-navjotsinghsidhu-loksabha-congressparty-politician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56413,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56411\/revisions\/56413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}