{"id":132537,"date":"2018-03-05T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T02:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=132537"},"modified":"2018-03-05T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T02:59:35","slug":"countdown-modi-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/countdown-modi-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The countdown for Modi begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Telangana, the TRS is well-placed. In Andhra Pradesh, there is no hope for the BJP. It is only a matter of time before the Telugu Desam walks out of the NDA.<\/p>\n<p>KCR has already sounded his anti-Modi stand.\u00a0 In Odisha, the recent by-election saw a thumping victory for the BJD. The Congress vote collapsed in a seat the Congress had won in 2014.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/4873_KCR-Speech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132538\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/4873_KCR-Speech.jpg\" alt=\"  The countdown for Modi begins \" width=\"610\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBut the beneficiary was not the BJP &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>it was the BJD. People are looking for third-party (non-Congress, non-BJP) options, where these are available and viable.<br \/>\nThe BJP now believes Tripura will set the trend for other elections, from Karnataka this summer to the Lok Sabha in 2019 to Bengal in 2021 . More than the BJP&#8217;s victory, Tripura represented the CPI(M)&#8217;s defeat.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/67487-xepdmpcbaw-1504463258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-132539\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/67487-xepdmpcbaw-1504463258.jpg\" alt=\" The countdown for Modi begins \" width=\"606\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/67487-xepdmpcbaw-1504463258.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/67487-xepdmpcbaw-1504463258-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn 2014, the BJP won 71 seats from UP. Extrapolating from the by-elections and other trends, quantitative and qualitative, one can safely conclude that the BJP is going to lose at least 50 of these 71 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Then the future of BJP and Modi is bleak for the 2019 polls. With KCR and company raising the voice against centre it may not be easy for the Modi -Shah Jodi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Telangana, the TRS is well-placed. In Andhra Pradesh, there is no hope for the BJP. It is only a matter of time before the Telugu Desam walks out of the NDA. KCR has already sounded his anti-Modi stand.\u00a0 In Odisha, the recent by-election saw a thumping victory for the BJD. The Congress vote collapsed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[48,350,67796,66,266,386,49,10029,67795],"class_list":["post-132537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-bjp","tag-countdown","tag-kcr","tag-modi","tag-nda","tag-telangana","tag-telugu-desam","tag-the-countdown-for-modi-begins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/e1-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132537","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=132537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}