{"id":95666,"date":"2017-07-01T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=95666"},"modified":"2017-07-01T21:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T16:10:23","slug":"meira-says-no-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/meira-says-no-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meira says she has no numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meira Kumar, the opposition\u2019s presidential nominee, asserted that she was not a \u201cscapegoat\u201d in the upcoming election to the country\u2019s top constitutional post as she was fighting for an ideology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnybody fighting for an ideology and appealing to the voice of conscience cannot be a scapegoat. I am a fighter and I will fight and I am sure that many will join me in this fight,\u201d she said in response to a question whether she was being made a scapegoat in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-95667 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/meira-kumar.jpg\" alt=\"Meira says she has no numbers \" width=\"581\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/meira-kumar.jpg 900w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/meira-kumar-768x534.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Union minister and Republican Party of India (RPI) leader Ramdas Athawale took a jibe at the Congress saying it was using Kumar as a \u201cscapegoat\u201d by fielding her as the opposition candidate in the July 17 presidential election. Seventeen opposition parties have fielded Kumar as their joint candidate in the presidential election against NDA\u2019s nominee Ram Nath Kovind.Kumar, a former Lok Sabha speaker and the daughter of iconic Dalit leader Jagjivan Ram, was speaking to reporters after meeting the Congress MPs and MLAs at the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee office in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To a question on her not having the support of enough lawmakers, Kumar said she was fighting the poll on values and principles which were \u201csacred\u201d to the people of the country. \u201cWherever I go, people tell me that I do not have the numbers. If I do not have the numbers, why don\u2019t you round up the figures and declare the results? Why have the elections?,\u201d she wondered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-95668 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/59216817.png\" alt=\"              Meira says she has no numbers \" width=\"583\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointing out that she launched her campaign from the Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat, Kumar said, \u201cI am carrying forward those values and principles which are sacred to most of my countrymen and women. \u201cSomeone has to take them up. I am taking up your fight also&#8230;.you want me to withdraw? Do you want me to get defeated? I am simply fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meira Kumar, the opposition\u2019s presidential nominee, asserted that she was not a \u201cscapegoat\u201d in the upcoming election to the country\u2019s top constitutional post as she was fighting for an ideology. \u201cAnybody fighting for an ideology and appealing to the voice of conscience cannot be a scapegoat. I am a fighter and I will fight and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[48192,47271,48191,24241,386,46944,47897,48193,970],"class_list":["post-95666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-meira","tag-meira-kumar","tag-meira-says-she-has-no-numbers","tag-mlas","tag-nda","tag-ram-nath-kovind","tag-sabarmati-ashram","tag-scapegoat","tag-union-minister"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/9999.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95666","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=95666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}