{"id":311557,"date":"2019-04-22T08:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T08:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311557"},"modified":"2019-04-22T08:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T08:11:30","slug":"congress-declares-six-candidates-for-delhi-sheila-dikshit-to-contest-from-north-east-delhi-lok-sabha-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-declares-six-candidates-for-delhi-sheila-dikshit-to-contest-from-north-east-delhi-lok-sabha-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress declares six candidates for Delhi, Sheila Dikshit to contest from North East Delhi Lok Sabha seat"},"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-310158 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sheila-dikshit-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sheila-dikshit-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sheila-dikshit.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sheila Dikshit, three-time Delhi Chief Minister, is among the candidates the Congress named on Monday for six of the seven Lok Sabha seats, ending months of speculation over the party\u2019s possible alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sheila Dikshit will contest from North East Lok Sabha constituency and the former Delhi unit chief Ajay Maken from New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The other candidates are ex- Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely from East Delhi, Former MP JP Agarwal from Chandni Chowk, Rajesh Lilothia from North West Delhi and Mahabal Mishra from West Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress Central Election Committee announces candidates for the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha from NCT of Delhi,\u201d Congress party tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Dikshit, three-time Delhi Chief Minister, is among the candidates the Congress named on Monday for six of the seven Lok Sabha seats, ending months of speculation over the party\u2019s possible alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Sheila Dikshit will contest from North East Lok Sabha constituency and the former Delhi unit chief Ajay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[577,236,429,3939,5366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311557"}],"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=311557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311558,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311557\/revisions\/311558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}