{"id":310763,"date":"2019-03-23T05:04:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310763"},"modified":"2019-03-23T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T05:04:18","slug":"congress-announces-35-more-lok-sabha-polls-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-announces-35-more-lok-sabha-polls-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress announces 35 more Lok Sabha polls candidates"},"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-310205 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress on Friday night released the seventh list of its 35 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections and shifted Uttar Pradesh state unit chief Raj Babbar from Moradabad to Fatehpur Sikri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party fielded Renuka Choudhary from Khammam in Telangana, Manickam Tagore from Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu and Raman Bhalla from Jammu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress has nominated Imran Pratapgarhiya from Moradabad where Babbar&#8217;s candidature was announced earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party also fielded Vikramaditya Singh, the son of former Union Minister Karan Singh, from Udhampur constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The candidates include four from Chhattisgarh, three from Jammu and Kashmir, two each from\u00a0Tripura and Odisha, five from Maharashtra, eight from Tamil Nadu, nine from\u00a0Uttar Pradesh\u00a0and one each from Telangana and Puducherry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress has also released a list of 54 candidates for Odisha Assembly election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday night released the seventh list of its 35 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections and shifted Uttar Pradesh state unit chief Raj Babbar from Moradabad to Fatehpur Sikri. The party fielded Renuka Choudhary from Khammam in Telangana, Manickam Tagore from Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu and Raman Bhalla from Jammu. Congress has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236,3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310763"}],"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=310763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310764,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310763\/revisions\/310764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}