{"id":310761,"date":"2019-03-23T04:58:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310761"},"modified":"2019-03-23T04:58:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T04:58:19","slug":"bjp-releases-third-list-of-candidates-for-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-releases-third-list-of-candidates-for-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP releases third list of candidates for Lok Sabha polls"},"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-306678 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its third\u00a0list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls carrying 36 names, which included 23 nominees for Andhra Pradesh where polling will be held in the first phase on April 11.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The list announced late on Friday night after it was finalised by the BJP Central Election Committee in New Delhi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The list also contained names of six candidates for Maharashtra and five for Odisha. Also, one candidate each for Assam and Meghalaya has also been announced in the list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra will contest Lok Sabha Polls from Puri constituency in Odisha while Basanta Kumar Panda from Kalahandi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP has so far announced a total of 221 candidates for Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its third\u00a0list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls carrying 36 names, which included 23 nominees for Andhra Pradesh where polling will be held in the first phase on April 11.\u00a0 The list announced late on Friday night after it was finalised by the BJP Central Election [&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":[453,3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310761"}],"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=310761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310762,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310761\/revisions\/310762"}],"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=310761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}