{"id":149,"date":"2006-01-29T22:44:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/01\/29\/iitians-form-political-party\/"},"modified":"2006-01-29T22:44:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T17:14:33","slug":"iitians-form-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/01\/29\/iitians-form-political-party\/","title":{"rendered":"IITians form political party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like Mani Rathnam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  Yuva  is getting off the reels. <strong>Five IITians, all in their 20s,<\/strong> have decided to take up mainstream politics. The youths, based in <strong>Jodhpur<\/strong>, will be in the city to campaign for their national party, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153  <strong>Paritrana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122  <\/strong>, which was launched in Jodhpur on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Giving up handsome pay packages, comfort of family and support of friends wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that easy,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 says <strong>Tanmay Rajpurohit<\/strong>, the national president of the party and B Tech in aerospace from IIT Bombay followed by an MS from GeorgiaTech and double masters in arts.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But my inner voice told me that I should invest my efforts in my country rather than making my pockets heavier,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 said <strong>Ajit Ashwalayan<\/strong> Shukla, vice president of the party. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-1384411,curpg-2.cms\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like Mani Rathnam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Yuva is getting off the reels. Five IITians, all in their 20s, have decided to take up mainstream politics. The youths, based in Jodhpur, will be in the city to campaign for their national party, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Paritrana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 , which was launched in Jodhpur on Friday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Giving up handsome pay packages, comfort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}