{"id":94204,"date":"2017-06-24T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T02:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=94204"},"modified":"2017-06-24T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T02:57:42","slug":"bihara-ki-beti-chosen-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bihara-ki-beti-chosen-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihara ki beti chosen to lose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar faced fresh calls from ally and RJD chief Lalu Prasad and opposition parties to reconsider the JD(U)\u2019s support to NDA presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind but he stood his ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Describing the Congress-led opposition nominee Meira Kumar as \u201cBihar ki Beti\u201d , Prasad appealed to Kumar for the second time in two days to \u201cmend the historic blunder\u201d in extending the JD(U)\u2019s backing to Kovind. Meira Kumar\u2019s candidature was announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94206 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/nitish-lalu-prasad-647_041017090505.jpg\" alt=\"Bihara ki beti chosen to lose?\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kovind was the governor of Bihar before being chosen as the NDA nominee for the July 17 presidential polls billed as a \u2018Dalit versus Dalit\u2019 contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The CPI also urged Kumar as well as BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik to re-consider their decision to support Kovind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But Kumar stuck to his stand, saying the presidential election should not become an issue of confrontation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is an election for President. It should not become an issue of confrontation,\u201d he told reporters after visiting Prasad\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94208 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/meira_kumar_and_kovind_1498133757.jpg\" alt=\"Bihara ki beti chosen to lose?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/meira_kumar_and_kovind_1498133757.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/meira_kumar_and_kovind_1498133757-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is no doubt about the result. We have lot of respect for \u2018Bihar Ki Beti\u2019 (Meira Kumar). But the question is has Bihar Ki Beti been chosen to lose?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kumar said the decision to support Kovind was taken at the meeting of JD(U)\u2019s core committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have taken this decision after thinking on all aspects. And as far as JD(U) is concerned, it has always taken independent decisions, even when we were a part of NDA. We supported Pranab Mukherjee as the UPA candidate that time.\u201dhe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar faced fresh calls from ally and RJD chief Lalu Prasad and opposition parties to reconsider the JD(U)\u2019s support to NDA presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind but he stood his ground. Describing the Congress-led opposition nominee Meira Kumar as \u201cBihar ki Beti\u201d , Prasad appealed to Kumar for the second time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[47465,47464,47466,22654,47271,5289,46944,47467],"class_list":["post-94204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bihar-chief-minister","tag-bihara-ki-beti-chosen-to-lose","tag-fresh-calls","tag-jdu","tag-meira-kumar","tag-nitish-kumar","tag-ram-nath-kovind","tag-rjd-chief-lalu-prasad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/lalu-and-nitish1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94204","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=94204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}