{"id":310891,"date":"2019-03-29T06:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310891"},"modified":"2019-03-29T06:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T06:01:21","slug":"congress-fields-urmila-matondkar-from-mumbai-north-lok-sabha-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-fields-urmila-matondkar-from-mumbai-north-lok-sabha-constituency\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress fields Urmila Matondkar from Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency"},"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-310844 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/urmila-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/urmila-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/urmila.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/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 fielded actress-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar from Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency for the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The decision came two days after she joined the party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Urmila had joined the Congress after meeting Rahul Gandhi\u00a0on March 27 and had later said that she was \u201chere to stay\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Congress central election committee has approved the candidature of Urmila Matondkar as party candidate to contest the ensuing general elections from Mumbai North parliamentary constituency in Maharashtra,\u201d the Congress statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She will contest against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopal Shetty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Friday fielded actress-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar from Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency for the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The decision came two days after she joined the party. Urmila had joined the Congress after meeting Rahul Gandhi\u00a0on March 27 and had later said that she was \u201chere to stay\u201d. \u201cThe Congress central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[236,1467,71,11200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310891"}],"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=310891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310892,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310891\/revisions\/310892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}