{"id":102913,"date":"2017-08-09T13:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=102913"},"modified":"2017-08-09T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:49:31","slug":"sonia-thanks-god-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/sonia-thanks-god-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia thanks God-EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After her top aide Ahmed Patel snatched a close victory in the Rajya Sabha election in Gujarat after midnight, Congress president Sonia Gandhi commented Thank God for the Election Commission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmed Patel won by the skin of his teeth after the Election Commission rejected the votes of two congress rebel legislators.<br \/>\nPatel needed 44 votes to win and he got 44 to return to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat for a fifth term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-102914 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sonia-gandhi-undergoes-minor-procedure-discharged-from-hospital.png\" alt=\"   Sonia thanks God-EC\" width=\"643\" height=\"482\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The election became a massive prestige battle between the Congress and the BJP as both had top leaders staking out at the Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I am happy and relieved with his victory,&#8221; Mrs Gandhi said, admitting that there was &#8220;so much tension.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She refused to speak further on Gujarat, where elections are due later this year. &#8220;My colleagues in the party have already spoken on this,&#8221; said the 70-year-old Congress chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After her top aide Ahmed Patel snatched a close victory in the Rajya Sabha election in Gujarat after midnight, Congress president Sonia Gandhi commented Thank God for the Election Commission.&#8221; Ahmed Patel won by the skin of his teeth after the Election Commission rejected the votes of two congress rebel legislators. Patel needed 44 votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[4310,592,17,51648],"class_list":["post-102913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-election-commission","tag-rajya-sabha","tag-sonia-gandhi","tag-sonia-thanks-god-ec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/soniya.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102913","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=102913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}