{"id":311339,"date":"2019-04-17T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T09:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311339"},"modified":"2019-04-17T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:52:00","slug":"lok-sabha-elections-sadhvi-pragya-singh-thakur-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lok-sabha-elections-sadhvi-pragya-singh-thakur-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha Elections: Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur joins BJP"},"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-311340 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sandhvi-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/sandhvi-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/sandhvi.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI have formally joined BJP, I will contest elections and will win also,\u201d Singh said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are speculations that BJP might field her from Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Bhopal against senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh for Lok Sabha Polls 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two years ago, Singh was granted bail by the Bombay High Court in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP has a stronghold in Bhopal as the Congress has not won from this seat since 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Madhya Pradesh will go to polls in four phases on April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19. The counting of votes will take place on May 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). \u201cI have formally joined BJP, I will contest elections and will win also,\u201d Singh said. There are speculations that BJP might field her from Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Bhopal against senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh for Lok Sabha Polls 2019. Two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,3939,9103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311339"}],"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=311339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311345,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311339\/revisions\/311345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}