{"id":305590,"date":"2018-11-16T07:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305590"},"modified":"2018-11-16T07:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:53:29","slug":"rajasthan-polls-congress-releases-first-list-of-152-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-polls-congress-releases-first-list-of-152-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan polls: Congress releases first list of 152 candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-polls-congress-releases-first-list-of-152-candidates\/ashok-pilot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305591\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305591 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ashok-pilot-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/ashok-pilot-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/ashok-pilot-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/ashok-pilot.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a>The Congress announced its first list of 152 candidates for the December 7 Assembly elections in Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot will contest from Sardarpura constituency in Jodhpur while Rajasthan Congress sate unit president Sachin Pilot will contest from Tonk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement came on late Thursday night after a meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pilot, who is a former MP from Dausa and Ajmer, will be contesting the Assembly polls for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior Congress leader CP Joshi will be fighting the elections from Nathdwara, while former BJP MP Harish Meena, who recently joined the Congress party will be contesting from Deoli-Uniara constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former BJP MLA Habibur Rahaman, who also joined the Congress \u00a0after being denied a ticket, will fight the elections from Nagaur .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The much-anticipated Congress list came four days after the BJP announced its first list of 131 candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress announced its first list of 152 candidates for the December 7 Assembly elections in Rajasthan. Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot will contest from Sardarpura constituency in Jodhpur while Rajasthan Congress sate unit president Sachin Pilot will contest from Tonk. The announcement came on late Thursday night after a meeting of the Congress Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[1578,236,1478,2562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305590"}],"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=305590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305593,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305590\/revisions\/305593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}