{"id":308031,"date":"2019-01-14T04:24:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T04:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308031"},"modified":"2019-01-14T04:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T04:24:52","slug":"delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-will-not-contest-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-will-not-contest-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will not contest Lok Sabha 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-299341 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday said that party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections this year from Varanasi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, AAP will contest on all the Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Goa. The party will contest on some seats in Uttar Pradesh from the areas where the organisation is strong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The details of seats and candidates will be announced by February-end, said by AAP MP Sanjay Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh further said that Arvind Kejriwal will not contest the Lok Sabha polls, as he wants to give special focus to his state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Arvind Kejriwal had contested from the Varanasi seat during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lost by more than three lakh votes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday said that party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections this year from Varanasi. However, AAP will contest on all the Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Goa. The party will contest on some seats in Uttar Pradesh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[304,306,3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308031"}],"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=308031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308032,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308031\/revisions\/308032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}