{"id":309872,"date":"2019-02-28T04:11:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T04:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309872"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:32:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:32:27","slug":"bjp-sad-to-retain-2014-seat-sharing-formula-for-lok-sabha-elections-amit-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-sad-to-retain-2014-seat-sharing-formula-for-lok-sabha-elections-amit-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP-SAD to retain 2014 seat-sharing formula for Lok Sabha elections: Amit Shah"},"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-309873 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/BJP-Akali-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/BJP-Akali-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/BJP-Akali-696x502.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/BJP-Akali-583x420.jpg 583w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/BJP-Akali.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP president\u00a0Amit Shah\u00a0on Thursday announced the seat-sharing formula with its old ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shah said, the SAD-BJP alliance will fight the Lok Sabha polls together and will contest on the same number of seats in Punjab as in the 2014 general elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSAD-BJP alliance will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections together. The seats will remain the same as they were in 2014. SAD will contest on 10 seats and the BJP on 3,\u201d Shah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He made the announcement after a meeting with SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and Punjab unit of BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP president\u00a0Amit Shah\u00a0on Thursday announced the seat-sharing formula with its old ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019. Shah said, the SAD-BJP alliance will fight the Lok Sabha polls together and will contest on the same number of seats in Punjab as in the 2014 general elections. \u201cSAD-BJP alliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[1194,453,279,3911],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309872"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309887,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309872\/revisions\/309887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}