{"id":58725,"date":"2024-07-26T12:57:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/?p=58725"},"modified":"2024-07-26T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:27:12","slug":"nominated-member-satnam-sandhu-from-punjab-joins-bjp-raising-their-rajya-sabha-representation-to-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/nominated-member-satnam-sandhu-from-punjab-joins-bjp-raising-their-rajya-sabha-representation-to-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominated member Satnam Sandhu from Punjab joins BJP, raising their Rajya Sabha representation to 87."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, July 26 (Ozi news desk):\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>The recent addition of Satnam Singh Sandhu to the BJP&#8217;s ranks in the Rajya Sabha has increased the party&#8217;s strength in the upper house to a total of 87 members. This development was officially confirmed in the Rajya Sabha bulletin released on Thursday evening, solidifying Sandhu&#8217;s affiliation with the BJP within the House.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bulletin, Sandhu formally joined the BJP on July 22, well within the six-month timeframe from his oath-taking ceremony on January 31. As a result, he is now recognized as a member of the BJP in accordance with the provisions outlined in the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution, specifically under Explanation [(b)(ii)] to paragraph 2 (1).<\/p>\n<p>With Sandhu&#8217;s entry into the BJP, the party&#8217;s representation in the Rajya Sabha has seen a notable increase. However, despite this boost in numbers, the BJP still falls short of a majority in the upper house. As a result, the party may need to seek external support in order to successfully pass any significant legislation or bills in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, July 26 (Ozi news desk):\u00a0 \u00a0 The recent addition of Satnam Singh Sandhu to the BJP&#8217;s ranks in the Rajya Sabha has increased the party&#8217;s strength in the upper house to a total of 87 members. This development was officially confirmed in the Rajya Sabha bulletin released on Thursday evening, solidifying Sandhu&#8217;s affiliation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,20,16185,9919,1],"tags":[35202,35204,35214,35207,35209,35213,35203,35212,11214,35201,35210,35205,35208,35206,35211],"class_list":["post-58725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-india","category-national","category-politics","category-punjab","tag-chandigarh-university-satnam-singh-sandhu","tag-chandigarh-university-satnam-singh-sandhu-news","tag-josh-talks-satnam-singh","tag-rajya-sabha-satnam-singh-sandhu","tag-s-satnam-singh-sandhu","tag-satanam-singh-sandhu-rajya-sabha","tag-satnam-singh","tag-satnam-singh-sabdhu-live","tag-satnam-singh-sandhu","tag-satnam-singh-sandhu-chandigarh-university","tag-satnam-singh-sandhu-interview","tag-satnam-singh-sandhu-news","tag-satnam-singh-sandhu-nominated-for-rajya-sabha","tag-satnam-singh-sandhu-story","tag-video-rajya-sabha-satnam-singh-sandhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58727,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58725\/revisions\/58727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}