{"id":311637,"date":"2019-04-25T08:10:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T08:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311637"},"modified":"2019-04-25T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T08:12:47","slug":"lok-sabha-polls-congress-fields-ajay-rai-against-pm-modi-from-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/lok-sabha-polls-congress-fields-ajay-rai-against-pm-modi-from-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha Polls: Congress fields Ajay Rai against PM Modi from Varanasi"},"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-311638 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ajay-Rai-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/Ajay-Rai-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/Ajay-Rai.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress on Thursday fielded Ajay Rai against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi, putting an end to weeks of speculation that party may field Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh for Lok Sabha Polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress had fielded Rai against PM Modi in 2014 Lok Sabha elections too. He ended up in the third position behind PM Modi and Aam Aadmi Party\u2019s (AAP)s chief Arvind Kejriwal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party has also fielded Madhusudan Tiwari from Gorakhpur against BJP&#8217;s actor-turned-politician Ravi Kishan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress Central Election Committee announces the next list of candidates for the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh,\u201d Congress party tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress on Thursday fielded Ajay Rai against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi, putting an end to weeks of speculation that party may field Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh for Lok Sabha Polls. The Congress had fielded Rai against PM Modi in 2014 Lok Sabha elections too. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[11292,236,283,1543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311637"}],"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=311637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311640,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311637\/revisions\/311640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}