{"id":101970,"date":"2017-08-04T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T04:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=101970"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T04:55:44","slug":"bjp-leads-in-rs-after-65-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bjp-leads-in-rs-after-65-years\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP leads in RS after 65 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BJP finally got the upper hand in RS after 6 decades. Sampathiya Uikey, the new MP from Madhya Pradesh, has made history for the BJP by ending the Congress&#8217; 65-year run as the Rajya Sabha&#8217;s biggest party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP now has 58 members, the Congress has 57, though the BJP-led government is still short of a majority in the 245-seat Upper House of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress may have remained the largest party till this year end os 2018, but its numbers were depleted by the death this year of two lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101972 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sampath.jpg\" alt=\"BJP leads in RS after 65 years\" width=\"612\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uikey was elected unopposed in a by-election for the Rajya Sabha seat held by union minister Anil Madhav Dave,who died in May this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A big boost will come next year when the BJP will win eight of nine Uttar Pradesh seats that will be vacated, after sweeping assembly elections in the state this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP finally got the upper hand in RS after 6 decades. Sampathiya Uikey, the new MP from Madhya Pradesh, has made history for the BJP by ending the Congress&#8217; 65-year run as the Rajya Sabha&#8217;s biggest party. The BJP now has 58 members, the Congress has 57, though the BJP-led government is still short of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[51211,51210,306,6605,592,51212],"class_list":["post-101970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-65-years","tag-bjp-leads","tag-congress","tag-madhya-pradesh","tag-rajya-sabha","tag-sampathiya-uikey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/431167-modi-shah12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}