{"id":310695,"date":"2019-03-20T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310695"},"modified":"2019-03-20T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T08:03:31","slug":"will-not-contest-lok-sabha-elections-says-mayawati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/will-not-contest-lok-sabha-elections-says-mayawati\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will not contest Lok Sabha Elections\u2019, says Mayawati"},"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-300464 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mayawati-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mayawati-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mayawati-768x641.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mayawati-696x581.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mayawati-503x420.jpg 503w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mayawati.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday announced that she will not contest 2019 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;\">&#8220;I won&#8217;t contest polls. I can vacate a seat and contest later if I want&#8221; Mayawati said at a press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mayawati said she would rather campaign for the candidates of BSP and Samajwadi Party (SP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is more important for the alliance to win more seats than for her to win one, Mayawati added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SP and BSP joined hands in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday announced that she will not contest 2019 Lok Sabha elections. &#8220;I won&#8217;t contest polls. I can vacate a seat and contest later if I want&#8221; Mayawati said at a press conference. Mayawati said she would rather campaign for the candidates of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[1345,1005,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310695"}],"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=310695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310696,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310695\/revisions\/310696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}