{"id":298798,"date":"2018-06-15T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T06:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=298798"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:18:53","slug":"bjp-wins-13-out-of-27-seats-in-rajasthan-local-body-by-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-wins-13-out-of-27-seats-in-rajasthan-local-body-by-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP Wins 13 Out Of 27 Seats In Rajasthan Local Body By-Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On June 14 following the results of Rajasthan local body by-elections, the BJP has won 13 out of 27 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0The by-polls were conducted on one seat of the Zila Parishad in Sawaimadhopur, 17 seats of Panchayat Samitis and nine seats of Nagar Palika\/Parishad in 17 districts of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bhajan Lal Sharma, BJP state general secretary, has said that the people have once again shown faith in the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Sachin Pilot, Pradesh Congress Committee president, has said that urban voters have given their mandate against the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">People have rejected BJP due to its anti-people policies, Pilot added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Updates:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP won 11 out of 17 seats of Panchayat Samitis and two seats out of nine seats of Nagar Palika<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress won 11 seats in the by-elections<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It retained one seat of Zila Parishad. Congress candidate Lokesh defeated BJP&#8217;s candidate Kamal with a margin of 358 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress won rest of the five seats of Panchayat Samitis and five seats of Nagar Palika\/Parishad<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Independent candidates also won one panchayat Samiti seat and one Nagar Palika seat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 14 following the results of Rajasthan local body by-elections, the BJP has won 13 out of 27 seats. \u00a0The by-polls were conducted on one seat of the Zila Parishad in Sawaimadhopur, 17 seats of Panchayat Samitis and nine seats of Nagar Palika\/Parishad in 17 districts of the state. Bhajan Lal Sharma, BJP state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[453,236,2558,2559,1478,2561,2562,2563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299498,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298798\/revisions\/299498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}