{"id":69323,"date":"2017-03-17T08:51:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T03:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=69323"},"modified":"2017-03-17T08:51:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T03:21:06","slug":"congress-wants-to-try-the-old-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/congress-wants-to-try-the-old-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress wants to try the old trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress party under Rahul Gandhi is trying the old trick. The Congress said it would explore all options, including a grand alliance, to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and pose a \u201cformidable challenge\u201d to the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The think tank opined that Uttar Pradesh elections would have had a different outcome had the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress come together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP did not get a very strong vote share in recent state elections whereas Congress and its allies got a good vote share despite losing the polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69325\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/aicc.jpg\" alt=\"aicc\" width=\"1000\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/aicc.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/aicc-768x446.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEverything possible will be done to counter the BJP. The Congress and its allies will pose a formidable challenge to BJP in next general elections.\u201dThat is the broad opinion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNitish Kumar should be the leader of the grand alliance, only then will it be possible to defeat the BJP,\u201d party leader Sanjay Singh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the day the Congress pitched for the alliance, party leaders defended vice-president Rahul Gandhi over the recent electoral setbacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gandhi, who promised structural changes in the part went abroad to join his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi who is undergoing medical checks abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69324\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/htls02-akhilesh_a08e77b4-da8c-11e6-bfdf-9650955a20b7.jpg\" alt=\"htls02-akhilesh_a08e77b4-da8c-11e6-bfdf-9650955a20b7\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/htls02-akhilesh_a08e77b4-da8c-11e6-bfdf-9650955a20b7.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/htls02-akhilesh_a08e77b4-da8c-11e6-bfdf-9650955a20b7-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/htls02-akhilesh_a08e77b4-da8c-11e6-bfdf-9650955a20b7-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gandhi has in the past faced criticism for his unannounced foreign trips, with rivals accusing of him being a \u201cnon-serious\u201d leader. There is 2 years time for the regrouping of other parties. But will this work is a big question. People are already giving another 2 terms to Modi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So winning the 2019 election is easy for BJP under the leadership of Modi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress party under Rahul Gandhi is trying the old trick. The Congress said it would explore all options, including a grand alliance, to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and pose a \u201cformidable challenge\u201d to the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The think tank opined that Uttar Pradesh elections would have had a different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29597,2],"tags":[36274,4345,350,10975,306,36273,18540,94,6303,305],"class_list":["post-69323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-special-stories","category-top-stories","tag-2019-loksabha-elections","tag-assembly-elections","tag-bjp","tag-bsp","tag-congress","tag-congress-wants-to-try-the-old-trick","tag-grand-alliance","tag-narendra-modi","tag-politics","tag-rahul-gandhi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/congress.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69323","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=69323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}