{"id":310749,"date":"2019-03-22T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310749"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:17:11","slug":"bengaluru-actor-prakash-raj-files-nomination-as-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bengaluru-actor-prakash-raj-files-nomination-as-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: Actor Prakash Raj files nomination as Independent"},"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-307672 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/prakash-raj-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/prakash-raj-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/prakash-raj.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">South Indian actor Prakash Raj on Friday filed his nomination as an Independent candidate to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Bengaluru Central constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After filing his nomination, Raj said national parties like Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress have failed the people but he\u00a0would like to be the voice of the people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c#bengalurucentral &#8230;. I Will be filing my CANDIDATURE as an INDEPENDENT tomorrow 22nd Friday .. please join me n empower #citizensvoice in parliament,\u201d Raj tweeted yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Raj is a known actor in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. He is popularly known for his roles in Bollywood movies like Wanted, Singham and Dabangg 2.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Indian actor Prakash Raj on Friday filed his nomination as an Independent candidate to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Bengaluru Central constituency. After filing his nomination, Raj said national parties like Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress have failed the people but he\u00a0would like to be the voice of the people. \u201c#bengalurucentral &#8230;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":307672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072],"tags":[1343,1430,10477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310749"}],"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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310753,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310749\/revisions\/310753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}