{"id":108519,"date":"2017-10-09T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108519"},"modified":"2017-10-09T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T14:07:24","slug":"it-could-be-mother-or-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/it-could-be-mother-or-son\/","title":{"rendered":"It could be mother or son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With rumours of Rahul Gandhi taking over as Congress president soon doing the rounds, senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said that &#8220;only two people can be Congress president, mother or son&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Rahul (Gandhi) already said that he is ready to contest the election,&#8221; Mani Shankar Aiyar was quoted by a news agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108520 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/sonia-rahul759.jpg\" alt=\"It could be mother or son \" width=\"759\" height=\"422\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;To contest an election, people are required. If there is no one and there is only one candidate, how will you conduct the election in the first place,&#8221; the senior Congress leader asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahul Gandhi is likely to be announced as the Congress president by October 31, taking the mantle from mother Sonia Gandhi who steered the party for 19 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rumours of Rahul Gandhi taking over as Congress president soon doing the rounds, senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said that &#8220;only two people can be Congress president, mother or son&#8221;. &#8220;Rahul (Gandhi) already said that he is ready to contest the election,&#8221; Mani Shankar Aiyar was quoted by a news agency. &#8220;To contest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[18,4346,55299,55300,55301,55302,305,15581],"class_list":["post-108519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-congress-president","tag-elections","tag-mani-shankar-aiyar","tag-mother-or-son","tag-mother-sonia-gandhi","tag-party-for-19-years","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-senior-congress-leader"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RTR1XBP7_Comp.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108519","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=108519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}