{"id":102783,"date":"2017-08-08T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T07:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=102783"},"modified":"2017-08-09T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T05:01:06","slug":"ahmed-patel-will-lose-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/ahmed-patel-will-lose-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Patel may lose the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shankersinh Vaghela, who quit the Congress last month, said today that he hadn&#8217;t voted for the party&#8217;s Ahmed Patel in the RS election and twisted the knife by commenting, who will vote for a losing candidate ?He said after casting his vote in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmed Patel, the political advisor to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is seeking a fifth Rajya Sabha term but his chances of re-election are bleak, predicted Vaghela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Patel doesn&#8217;t stand a chance, won&#8217;t even cross 40&#8230; Even legislators currently with Congress will not vote for him,&#8221; said the 77-year-old veteran, who delivered the first blow to the Congress by exiting the party last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;When the Congress is not winning, what was the point in giving the vote for Ahmed Patel. I haven&#8217;t voted for Ahmed Patel,&#8221; he declared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmed Patel told reporters: &#8220;So what? What difference does it make? Just wait for the results.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shankersinh Vaghela, who quit the Congress last month, said today that he hadn&#8217;t voted for the party&#8217;s Ahmed Patel in the RS election and twisted the knife by commenting, who will vote for a losing candidate ?He said after casting his vote in Ahmedabad. Ahmed Patel, the political advisor to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27973,51570,7291,306,51572,51571,17],"class_list":["post-102783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","tag-ahmed-patel","tag-ahmed-patel-will-lose-the-election","tag-ahmedabad","tag-congress","tag-rs-election","tag-shankersinh-vaghela","tag-sonia-gandhi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ahmed-patel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102783","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=102783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}