{"id":311149,"date":"2019-04-09T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311149"},"modified":"2019-04-10T02:43:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T02:43:31","slug":"bjp-mla-4-security-personnel-killed-in-dantewada-maoist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-mla-4-security-personnel-killed-in-dantewada-maoist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP MLA, 4 security personnel killed in Dantewada Maoist attack"},"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-311154 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/attack-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/attack-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/attack-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/attack-547x420.jpg 547w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/attack.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A BJP MLA and four security personnel were killed on Tuesday after Maoists attacked a convoy in Chhattisgarh\u2019s Dantewada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP leader was identified as Bhima Mandavi, a lawmaker from Dantewada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the police, Maoists set off a blast through an improvised explosive device (IED) that was buried on the road when the Dantewada legislator Bhima Mandavi\u2019s convoy was passing through the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security forces were rushed to the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident took place just two days before the first phase of voting for the Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BJP MLA and four security personnel were killed on Tuesday after Maoists attacked a convoy in Chhattisgarh\u2019s Dantewada. The BJP leader was identified as Bhima Mandavi, a lawmaker from Dantewada. According to the police, Maoists set off a blast through an improvised explosive device (IED) that was buried on the road when the Dantewada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3642,2089,2014],"tags":[11244,8839,1708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311149"}],"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=311149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311164,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311149\/revisions\/311164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}