{"id":308936,"date":"2019-02-04T04:47:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308936"},"modified":"2019-02-04T04:47:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:47:23","slug":"bjp-delegation-to-meet-chief-election-commissioner-against-west-bengal-government-for-blocking-its-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-delegation-to-meet-chief-election-commissioner-against-west-bengal-government-for-blocking-its-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP delegation to meet Chief Election Commissioner against West Bengal government for blocking its rallies"},"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-301080 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/eci-tehelka-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/eci-tehelka-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/eci-tehelka.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A delegation of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders will on Monday meet Chief Election Commissioner to complain about the West Bengal government for blocking rallies of BJP leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was denied permission to land his chopper in West Bengal to conduct two rallies in North Dinajpur district&#8217;s Raiganj and in South Dinajpur district&#8217;s Balurghat as part of the &#8220;Gantantra Bachao&#8221; campaign. After being denied permission, he addressed the rallies over the phone from Lucknow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yogi said that the TMC government is anti-people, anti-democratic and have compromised with national security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The West Bengal government had earlier denied permission to several BJP leaders including BJP president Amit Shah to conduct rallies, ahead of the Lok Sabha election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders will on Monday meet Chief Election Commissioner to complain about the West Bengal government for blocking rallies of BJP leaders. On Sunday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was denied permission to land his chopper in West Bengal to conduct two rallies in North Dinajpur district&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[453,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308936"}],"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=308936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308937,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308936\/revisions\/308937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}