{"id":5338,"date":"2019-08-01T21:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/01\/india-ruling-party-bjp-expels-politician-rape-kuldeep-singh-sengar"},"modified":"2019-08-01T21:54:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T12:54:23","slug":"indias-ruling-party-expels-politician-accused-of-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5338","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s ruling party expels politician accused of rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJP\u2019s Kuldeep Singh Sengar sacked days after car crash left alleged victim critically injured<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s ruling party has expelled an official accused of rape, days after a deadly car crash left his alleged victim in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are examining possible links between Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) lawmaker, who was accused of raping a teenage girl, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/29\/indian-teenager-accused-politician-injured-car-crash-uttar-pradesh\">collision that occurred<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/01\/india-ruling-party-bjp-expels-politician-rape-kuldeep-singh-sengar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP\u2019s Kuldeep Singh Sengar sacked days after car crash left alleged victim critically injuredIndia\u2019s ruling party has expelled an official accused of rape, days after a deadly car crash left his alleged victim in critical condition.Investigators are ex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5338\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}