{"id":307924,"date":"2019-01-10T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307924"},"modified":"2019-01-10T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T04:36:07","slug":"haryana-randeep-surjewala-to-be-congress-candidate-for-jind-by-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/haryana-randeep-surjewala-to-be-congress-candidate-for-jind-by-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana: Randeep Surjewala to be Congress candidate for Jind by-polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300845 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsurjewala-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rsurjewala-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rsurjewala-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rsurjewala.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/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 on Wednesday announced that its party\u2019s spokesperson Randeep Surjewala will be its candidate for the by-election in Haryana&#8217;s Jind Assembly constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The poll will take place later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision was made after a round of meetings between the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and the state Congress leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress tweeted, \u201cAnnouncement of @rssurjewala as the Congress candidate for the ensuing bye-election to the Legislative Assembly of Haryana.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surjewala, is presently an MLA from Kaithal constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Surjewala is seen by the party as a strong candidate as had earlier won polls from Jind district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">By-election to Haryana\u2019s Jind seat will be held on January 28 and the counting of votes will take place on January 31.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Wednesday announced that its party\u2019s spokesperson Randeep Surjewala will be its candidate for the by-election in Haryana&#8217;s Jind Assembly constituency. The poll will take place later this month. The decision was made after a round of meetings between the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and the state Congress leadership. Congress tweeted, \u201cAnnouncement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[236,338,218,1576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307924"}],"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=307924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307925,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307924\/revisions\/307925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}