{"id":99109,"date":"2017-07-20T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T05:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=99109"},"modified":"2017-07-20T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T10:58:08","slug":"kovind-will-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/kovind-will-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramnath is the new Rashtrapathi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kovind has won the election as the new President of India. The result will be announced by this evening. PM Modi&#8217;s choice of Kovind, a Dalit candidate, was seen as a masterstroke to divide the opposition and keep allies together as well as a move to consolidate its growing support among politically vital backward castes. If elected, Ram Nath Kovind will be the second Dalit President of India after KR Narayanan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99111\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/meeting-governor-kovind-credit-minister-prime-narendra_ed1170ee-5563-11e7-9dcc-cc63e7fed987.jpg\" alt=\"Kovind will be the new President \" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/meeting-governor-kovind-credit-minister-prime-narendra_ed1170ee-5563-11e7-9dcc-cc63e7fed987.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/meeting-governor-kovind-credit-minister-prime-narendra_ed1170ee-5563-11e7-9dcc-cc63e7fed987-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/meeting-governor-kovind-credit-minister-prime-narendra_ed1170ee-5563-11e7-9dcc-cc63e7fed987-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar&#8217;s Janata Dal (United) broke ranks with the opposition to support for Ram Nath Kovind and the BJP&#8217;s partner Shiv Sena, which has in the last two Presidential elections voted against its own alliance, too has supported Mr Kovind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kumar&#8217;s support to Mr Kovind came as a big blow to the opposition, which had picked the Presidential elections as an occasion to forge an anti-BJP bloc ahead of the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kovind has won the election as the new President of India. The result will be announced by this evening. PM Modi&#8217;s choice of Kovind, a Dalit candidate, was seen as a masterstroke to divide the opposition and keep allies together as well as a move to consolidate its growing support among politically vital backward castes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[45005,47341,49838,15952,246,23364,46944],"class_list":["post-99109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-dalit-candidate","tag-kovind","tag-kovind-will-be-the-new-president","tag-opposition","tag-pm-modi","tag-president-of-india","tag-ram-nath-kovind"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kovind-will-be-the-new-President.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99109","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=99109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}