{"id":310335,"date":"2019-03-11T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310335"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:59:19","slug":"will-not-fight-lok-sabha-polls-says-ncp-chief-sharad-pawar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/will-not-fight-lok-sabha-polls-says-ncp-chief-sharad-pawar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will not fight Lok Sabha polls\u2019, says NCP chief Sharad Pawar"},"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-310336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Veteran politician and National Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Monday said he will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There were reports earlier that Pawar would contest from Madha constituency southwest Maharashtra, however, he said today that he has decided against the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NCP chief said that he thought that already two members of his family are contesting polls this time, hence this is the right time to take a decision to not contest in upcoming elections since he already has contested 14 times in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pawar also indicated that Parth, son of his nephew and senior party leader Ajit Pawar, may be fielded from Maval constituency in Pune district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 78-year-old had earlier been elected to Lok Sabha seven times. He previously served as Maharashtra\u2019s Chief Minister on three separate occasions and held the posts of\u00a0Minister of Defence\u00a0and\u00a0Minister of Agriculture\u00a0in the\u00a0Government of India. Pawar hails from the town of\u00a0Baramati\u00a0in the\u00a0Pune district\u00a0of\u00a0Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pawar is a member of the\u00a0Rajya Sabha where he leads the NCP delegation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran politician and National Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Monday said he will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. There were reports earlier that Pawar would contest from Madha constituency southwest Maharashtra, however, he said today that he has decided against the idea. The NCP chief said that he thought that already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3939,1892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310335"}],"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=310335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310337,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310335\/revisions\/310337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}