{"id":310957,"date":"2019-04-01T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310957"},"modified":"2019-04-01T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:26:57","slug":"lok-sabha-elections-bjp-fields-thushar-vellappally-against-rahul-gandhi-in-wayanad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lok-sabha-elections-bjp-fields-thushar-vellappally-against-rahul-gandhi-in-wayanad\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha Elections: BJP fields Thushar Vellappally against Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad"},"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=\"460\" height=\"259\" 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: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced that they are going to field Thushar\u00a0Vellappally\u00a0against Rahul\u00a0Gandhi in\u00a0Wayanad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP has chosen the president of Bharat Dharma Jana Sena,\u00a0Thushar\u00a0Vellappally, as its NDA candidate from\u00a0Wayanad, where Congress chief\u00a0Rahul\u00a0Gandhi is set to contest from.\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 announcement was made by BJP president Amit Shah. He said Vellappally is a vibrant and dynamic youth leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI proudly announce Shri Thushar Vellappally, President of Bharat Dharma Jana Sena as NDA candidate from Wayanad. A vibrant and dynamic youth leader, he represents our commitment towards development and social justice. With him, NDA will emerge as Kerala&#8217;s political alternative,\u201d Amit Shah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced that they are going to field Thushar\u00a0Vellappally\u00a0against Rahul\u00a0Gandhi in\u00a0Wayanad. BJP has chosen the president of Bharat Dharma Jana Sena,\u00a0Thushar\u00a0Vellappally, as its NDA candidate from\u00a0Wayanad, where Congress chief\u00a0Rahul\u00a0Gandhi is set to contest from.\u00a0 The announcement was made by BJP president Amit Shah. He said Vellappally is a vibrant and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[453,466,11220,4089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310957"}],"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=310957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310960,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310957\/revisions\/310960"}],"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=310957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}