{"id":92538,"date":"2017-06-17T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=92538"},"modified":"2017-06-17T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T14:48:29","slug":"no-says-sushma-swaraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/no-says-sushma-swaraj\/","title":{"rendered":"No says Sushma Swaraj &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today dismissed reports that she was a contender in the presidential election as &#8220;rumours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though neither the government nor the opposition has declared their candidate for the poll to elect the country&#8217;s first citizen, several names, including Ms Swaraj&#8217;s, have been doing the rounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;These are rumours. I am the External Affairs Minister and you are asking me something which is an internal matter,&#8221; she said when asked by reporters whether she was being considered as a candidate in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presidential election is scheduled to be held on July 17 while the counting of votes would be held on July 20.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the schedule, June 28 is the last day for nominations, while a candidate can withdraw from the electoral battle till July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today dismissed reports that she was a contender in the presidential election as &#8220;rumours&#8221;. Though neither the government nor the opposition has declared their candidate for the poll to elect the country&#8217;s first citizen, several names, including Ms Swaraj&#8217;s, have been doing the rounds. &#8220;These are rumours. I am the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[350,46776,386,23364,10962,437],"class_list":["post-92538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp","tag-external-affairs-minister","tag-nda","tag-president-of-india","tag-presidential-elections","tag-sushma-swaraj"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sushma.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92538","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=92538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}