{"id":305347,"date":"2018-11-09T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305347"},"modified":"2018-11-09T05:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:54:20","slug":"chhattisgarh-prime-minister-narendra-modi-congress-president-rahul-gandhi-to-kick-off-campaign-for-assembly-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chhattisgarh-prime-minister-narendra-modi-congress-president-rahul-gandhi-to-kick-off-campaign-for-assembly-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi to kick off campaign for Assembly polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305351 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/modi-rahul1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/modi-rahul1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/modi-rahul1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/modi-rahul1-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/modi-rahul1-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/modi-rahul1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be in Chhattisgarh on Friday to campaign for the first phase of the assembly elections in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi is schedule to address a rally in Bastar district headquarters, Jagdalpur, while Gandhi will be in state as part of a two day tour during which he will address five rallies and hold a road show in Chief Minister Raman Singh&#8217;s constituency Rajnandgaon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLooking forward to addressing a rally in Jagdalpur. BJP has assiduously served the people of Chhattisgarh for the last 15 years and I am sure the people will again bless our Party in the coming polls. @BJP4CGState,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This will be the Prime Minister\u2019s first election rally for the state Assembly polls. It will add power to the party&#8217;s campaign,&#8221; the BJP spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gandhi on Friday will address his first rally in Pakhanjore town of Kanker district in afternoon, followed by public meetings in Rajnandgaon district&#8217;s Khairgarh and Dongargarh towns, said head of Congress state communication wing Shailesh Nitin Trivedi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOn Saturday, Gandhi will address rallies in Charama (Kanker district) and Kondagaon, The Congress chief will also chair a meeting of party workers in Jagdalpur,\u201d Trivedi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The campaigning for the first phase will end on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be in Chhattisgarh on Friday to campaign for the first phase of the assembly elections in the state. Modi is schedule to address a rally in Bastar district headquarters, Jagdalpur, while Gandhi will be in state as part of a two day tour during which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3642,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[2758,1706,1124,1277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305347"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305353,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305347\/revisions\/305353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}