{"id":455186,"date":"2026-01-06T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=455186"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:46:13","slug":"opinion-opinion-suresh-kalmadi-the-man-behind-the-legendary-5-star-dinner-that-unnerved-even-sonia-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=455186","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Opinion | Suresh Kalmadi: The Man Behind The Legendary 5-Star Dinner That Unnerved Even Sonia Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalmadi proved that in Indian politics, the man who controls the guest list often has more power than those whose names appear on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bKalmadi proved that in Indian politics, the man who controls the guest list often has more power than those whose names appear on it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalmadi proved that in Indian politics, the man who controls the guest list often has more power than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 6a4b5deb190636d5f833cb99. Config Timestamp: 2026-07-06 07:48:59 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-07-11 07:24:19 UTC, Optimization Time: 5.08ms -->