{"id":60689,"date":"2023-12-22T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T03:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/22\/mahua-moitra-indian-parliament-expulsion"},"modified":"2023-12-22T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T03:01:43","slug":"an-mp-her-ex-and-their-dog-mahua-moitras-battle-with-indias-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60689","title":{"rendered":"An MP, her ex and their dog: Mahua Moitra\u2019s battle with India\u2019s parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken opposition MP hits back after being kicked out, blaming a witch-hunt and vowing \u2018I\u2019m not going anywhere\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a saga that has had the hallways of India\u2019s parliament abuzz for months: one that began with a bitter custody battle over a rottweiler dog named Henry, and culminated with the expulsion of one of the fiercest critics of the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Mahua Moitra, the MP who was expelled from parliament earlier this month after a vote, described the situation as \u201cso ridiculous I feel like pinching myself\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/22\/mahua-moitra-indian-parliament-expulsion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken opposition MP hits back after being kicked out, blaming a witch-hunt and vowing \u2018I\u2019m not going anywhere\u2019It\u2019s a saga that has had the hallways of India\u2019s parliament abuzz for months: one that began with a bitter custody battle over a rottweile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[630,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adani-group","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60690,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60689\/revisions\/60690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}