{"id":305747,"date":"2018-11-17T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305747"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:36:18","slug":"rajasthan-assembly-polls-congress-fields-manvendra-singh-against-vasundhara-raje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-assembly-polls-congress-fields-manvendra-singh-against-vasundhara-raje\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan assembly polls: Congress fields Manvendra Singh against Vasundhara Raje"},"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-assembly-polls-congress-fields-manvendra-singh-against-vasundhara-raje\/manvendra-vasundhra\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305748\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305748 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/manvendra-vasundhra-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/manvendra-vasundhra-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/manvendra-vasundhra-696x405.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/manvendra-vasundhra.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a>Congress on Saturday fielded Manvendra Singh, former BJP leader and the son of BJP veteran Jaswant Singh against Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje from Jhalrapatan, a town in Jhalawar district for the December 7 assembly polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 54-year-old lawmaker from Sheo constituency of Rajasthan had quit the BJP on September 22 with a parting shot, \u201cKamal ka\u00a0phool\u00a0humari\u00a0badi\u00a0bhool\u00a0(the lotus flower was my mistake).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The differences between Manvendra and the\u00a0Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u00a0surfaced in 2014 when his father\u00a0Jaswant Singh\u00a0was denied Lok Sabha ticket from\u00a0Barmer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the same year, Manvendra Singh was suspended by the party\u2019s primary membership for campaigning for his father (who contested as an independent) as against the party\u2019s official candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress wants to cash in on his popularity among Rajputs in Rajasthan, who form seven\u00a0per cent\u00a0of the electorate and have traditionally voted the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajasthan will vote in a single phase on December 7 and votes will be counted on December 11.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress on Saturday fielded Manvendra Singh, former BJP leader and the son of BJP veteran Jaswant Singh against Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje from Jhalrapatan, a town in Jhalawar district for the December 7 assembly polls. The 54-year-old lawmaker from Sheo constituency of Rajasthan had quit the BJP on September 22 with a parting shot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[453,236,9749,9748,5189,1478,3218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305747"}],"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=305747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305750,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305747\/revisions\/305750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}