{"id":118708,"date":"2017-12-20T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=118708"},"modified":"2017-12-20T18:43:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:13:43","slug":"smriti-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/smriti-says-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti says no"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Union minister Smriti Irani has, with much amusement, rubbished speculation that she is in the running to be Gujarat&#8217;s next chief minister, saying, &#8220;everyone wants to get rid of me that is why they start such rumours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-118709 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/615858-smriti-irani-pti-040317.jpg\" alt=\"  Smriti says no \" width=\"524\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/615858-smriti-irani-pti-040317.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/615858-smriti-irani-pti-040317-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/615858-smriti-irani-pti-040317-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><br \/>\nMs Irani, who is Minister for Textiles and Information and Broadcasting, is also a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat. Gujarat&#8217;s top post was seen as reserved for outgoing chief minister Vijay Rupani before assembly election results were announced on Monday.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-118710 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/150916623659f40c9c3476b.jpeg\" alt=\"    Smriti says no \" width=\"558\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/150916623659f40c9c3476b.jpeg 1242w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/150916623659f40c9c3476b-768x439.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/150916623659f40c9c3476b-840x480.jpeg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/>The BJP could not win even 100 seats, stalling at 99, 16 short of their tally in the last election, in the face of a spirited fight by the Congress. The lower margin of victory is said to have changed Mr Rupani&#8217;s status as sure-to-be-next-CM. He remains a frontrunner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister Smriti Irani has, with much amusement, rubbished speculation that she is in the running to be Gujarat&#8217;s next chief minister, saying, &#8220;everyone wants to get rid of me that is why they start such rumours.&#8221; Ms Irani, who is Minister for Textiles and Information and Broadcasting, is also a Rajya Sabha MP from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[13220,3514,4367,74,60912,60911,17199],"class_list":["post-118708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-broadcasting","tag-chief-minister","tag-gujarat","tag-rumours","tag-smriti","tag-smriti-says-no","tag-union-minister-smriti-irani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/e4-8.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118708","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=118708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}