{"id":310725,"date":"2019-03-21T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310725"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T11:50:58","slug":"bjp-releases-list-of-candidates-for-arunachal-pradesh-sikkim-assembly-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-releases-list-of-candidates-for-arunachal-pradesh-sikkim-assembly-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP releases list of candidates for Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim Assembly polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released the list of candidates for the assembly elections for the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The party has released the list of 18 candidates- 6 names from Arunachal Pradesh and 12 from Sikkim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">For Arunachal Pradesh, it is the 2nd list for the remaining six seats, earlier BJP had already announced candidate list for 54 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">For Sikkim, it is the first list of 12 candidates for the 32-member assembly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Both the states will go to polls to elect a new assembly on April 11. The Lok Sabha polls in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh will happen simultaneously with the assembly polls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released the list of candidates for the assembly elections for the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.\u00a0 The party has released the list of 18 candidates- 6 names from Arunachal Pradesh and 12 from Sikkim. For Arunachal Pradesh, it is the 2nd list for the remaining six seats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310725"}],"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=310725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310726,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310725\/revisions\/310726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}