{"id":311005,"date":"2019-04-03T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311005"},"modified":"2019-09-07T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T09:18:30","slug":"bjp-releases-16th-list-of-6-candidates-fields-dinesh-lal-yadav-nirhua-from-azamgarh-against-akhilesh-yadav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-releases-16th-list-of-6-candidates-fields-dinesh-lal-yadav-nirhua-from-azamgarh-against-akhilesh-yadav\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP releases 16th list of 6 candidates, fields Dinesh Lal Yadav &#8216;Nirhua&#8217; from Azamgarh against Akhilesh Yadav"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311006 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/dinesh-lal-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/dinesh-lal-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/dinesh-lal-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/dinesh-lal.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released 16th list of 6 candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections fielding Bhojpuri actor-singer Dinesh Lal Yadav &#8216;Nirhua&#8217; from Azamgarh (UP) against Samajwadi Party&#8217;s (SP)s Akhilesh Yadav.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Manoj Kotak will contest from Mumbai North East, from where Kirit Somaiya is the sitting MP.\u00a0Under immense pressure from the Shiv Sena, the BJP has dropped the two-time lawmaker as a candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prem Singh Shakhya will fight against SP patriarch Mulayam Singh in Mainpuri.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The list also includes Dinesh Pratap Singh who will fight against UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released 16th list of 6 candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections fielding Bhojpuri actor-singer Dinesh Lal Yadav &#8216;Nirhua&#8217; from Azamgarh (UP) against Samajwadi Party&#8217;s (SP)s Akhilesh Yadav. Manoj Kotak will contest from Mumbai North East, from where Kirit Somaiya is the sitting MP.\u00a0Under immense pressure from the Shiv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":311006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311005"}],"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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311007,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311005\/revisions\/311007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}