{"id":305845,"date":"2018-11-20T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305845"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:55:54","slug":"sushma-swaraj-will-not-contest-2019-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sushma-swaraj-will-not-contest-2019-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushma Swaraj will not contest 2019 Lok Sabha 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-300177 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sushma-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sushma-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sushma-342x420.jpg 342w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sushma.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday declared that she will keep herself out of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, citing health reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sushma Swaraj, 66, announced her decision at a media interaction in Indore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is the party which decides but I have made up my mind that I will not contest the next Lok Sabha elections,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swaraj said that she had already conveyed her decision to the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swaraj won Lok Sabha elections in 2014 from Vidisha parliamentary constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of more than 4 lakh votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In November 2016, the Twitter-savvy minister had posted the news on twitter about her kidney transplant before her surgery. &#8220;I am in AIIMS because of kidney failure. Presently, I am on dialysis. I am undergoing tests for a Kidney transplant. Lord Krishna will bless.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday declared that she will keep herself out of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, citing health reasons. Sushma Swaraj, 66, announced her decision at a media interaction in Indore. \u201cIt is the party which decides but I have made up my mind that I will not contest the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3974,1161,1043,9788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305845"}],"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=305845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305847,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305845\/revisions\/305847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}