{"id":117813,"date":"2017-12-17T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T07:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=117813"},"modified":"2017-12-17T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:03:05","slug":"modi-saves-bjp-in-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/modi-saves-bjp-in-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi saves BJP in Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hardik, Alpesh and Jignesh (HAJ) and their support for the Congress did not translate into votes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The HAJ campaign weren&#8217;t able to translate their support to the Congress in a meaningful way. But this will come to light when results will be declared on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not that easy to dislodge BJP in Modi-Shah&#8217;s home base, but its own dream of 150 seats will not be a reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP had lost some support but a pretty aggressive campaign by Modi saved the party from slipping below 100 seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117814 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/modi-rahul.jpg\" alt=\"Modi saves BJP in Gujarat \" width=\"759\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modi is clearly the BJP&#8217;s warhead and on his home turf, he was able to exploit the &#8220;son of the soil&#8221; persona to the hilt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress has some good news: the closer it gets to 80 seats, the rosier it looks for them. They found a new Rahul Gandhi, a willing and aggressive campaigner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardik, Alpesh and Jignesh (HAJ) and their support for the Congress did not translate into votes. The HAJ campaign weren&#8217;t able to translate their support to the Congress in a meaningful way. But this will come to light when results will be declared on Monday. It is not that easy to dislodge BJP in Modi-Shah&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[60545,60543,60542,60544,306,60546,57158,305,17397],"class_list":["post-117813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-100-seats","tag-150-seats","tag-alpesh-and-jignesh","tag-bjp-in-modi-shah","tag-congress","tag-declared-on-monday","tag-hardik","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-votes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/modi-PTI-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117813","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=117813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}