{
  "id": 17933574,
  "title": "'Hookah Party Funded By Taxpayers' Money?': AAP's Saurabh Bharadwaj Attacks Delhi's Dy CM Pravesh Verma Over Diwali Celebration At Latter's Residence",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/hookah-party-funded-by-taxpayers-money-aaps-saurabh-bharadwaj-attacks",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-03T07:37:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/hookah-party-funded-by-taxpayers-money-aaps-saurabh-bharadwaj-attacks-delhis-dy-cm-pravesh-verma-over-diwali-celebration-at-latters-residence"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "New Delhi: A Diwali celebration hosted by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Pravesh Verma at his official residence on Sunday night has triggered a political exchange after videos and photographs from the gathering showed him smoking a hookah. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj questioned whether public money was used to organise the event, while the BJP defended…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}