{"id":310772,"date":"2019-03-23T07:21:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T07:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310772"},"modified":"2019-03-23T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T09:21:00","slug":"nda-releases-bihars-list-ravi-shankar-prasad-replaces-shatrughan-sinha-in-patna-sahib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nda-releases-bihars-list-ravi-shankar-prasad-replaces-shatrughan-sinha-in-patna-sahib\/","title":{"rendered":"NDA releases Bihar\u2019s list, Ravi Shankar Prasad replaces Shatrughan Sinha in Patna Sahib"},"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-308991 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ravi-shankar-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/ravi-shankar-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/ravi-shankar.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Saturday released its list of Lok Sabha candidates in Bihar. BJP Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib\u00a0Shatrughan Sinha\u00a0has been replaced by Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sinha is the sitting MP from Patna Sahib. But he has been unhappy with the BJP for the past couple of years and had a fallout with the party leadership after he was left out of the cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sinha had recently taken part in West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s mega opposition rally in January. He<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0was seen publicly criticizing the party leadership and the Prime Minister at various events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NDA today announced its 39 candidates for the polls in Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nawada MP and Union minister Giriraj Singh will contest from Begusarai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lok Janshakti Party&#8217;s Chirag Paswan will contest from Jamui.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ramkirpal Yadav to contest from Patliputra, Aswani Choubey from Buxar, Radha Mohan Singh from East Champaran, Rajiv Pratap Rudy from Saran.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Saturday released its list of Lok Sabha candidates in Bihar. BJP Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib\u00a0Shatrughan Sinha\u00a0has been replaced by Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Sinha is the sitting MP from Patna Sahib. But he has been unhappy with the BJP for the past couple of years and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,895],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310772"}],"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=310772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310776,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310772\/revisions\/310776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}