{"id":117979,"date":"2017-12-18T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T04:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=117979"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T04:51:29","slug":"modi-saves-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/modi-saves-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi saves BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trends show the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a slight edge over a resurgent Congress in Gujarat while in Himachal Pradesh it is clearly ahead after counting of votes began sharp at 8 am today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP and Congress \u2013 buoyed this time by traditional BJP voters Patidars and OBCs \u2013 was locked in a close fight after a few hours of counting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117980 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/modi-rahul-2.jpg\" alt=\"Modi saves BJP\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">n Himachal Pradesh, which has alternated between the BJP and the Congress for decades, the BJP was cruising with nearly two-third majority after a few hours of counting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-117981 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vijay-rupani_f9d18e12-d7fa-11e7-a032-ea4e291afd66.jpg\" alt=\"Modi saves BJP\" width=\"659\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vijay-rupani_f9d18e12-d7fa-11e7-a032-ea4e291afd66.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vijay-rupani_f9d18e12-d7fa-11e7-a032-ea4e291afd66-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/vijay-rupani_f9d18e12-d7fa-11e7-a032-ea4e291afd66-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, who at one point was trailing behind his Congress rival Indranil Rajyaguru in Rajkot West, pulled ahead after a few rounds of counting. His deputy Nitin Patel is not so lucky yet, and is trailing from Mehsana behind Congress candidate Jivabhai Patel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trends show the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a slight edge over a resurgent Congress in Gujarat while in Himachal Pradesh it is clearly ahead after counting of votes began sharp at 8 am today. The BJP and Congress \u2013 buoyed this time by traditional BJP voters Patidars and OBCs \u2013 was locked in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[60617,12697,60618,306,60619,4367,57075,4946,59658,60621,60620,60616,14552,244],"class_list":["post-117979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-8-am-today","tag-bharatiya-janata-party","tag-bjp-voters-patidars-and-obcs","tag-congress","tag-deputy-nitin-patel","tag-gujarat","tag-gujarat-chief-minister","tag-himachal-pradesh","tag-indranil-rajyaguru","tag-jivabhai-patel","tag-mehsana","tag-modi-saves-bjp","tag-rajkot","tag-vijay-rupani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/government-celebration-khanapara-veterinary-national-democratic-supporters_e9bc65a4-4233-11e7-a718-97a052f84fc6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117979","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=117979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}