{"id":312541,"date":"2019-05-23T05:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T05:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312541"},"modified":"2019-05-23T05:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T05:48:36","slug":"elections-2019-updates-pragya-thakur-ahead-of-digvijaya-singh-in-bhopal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/elections-2019-updates-pragya-thakur-ahead-of-digvijaya-singh-in-bhopal\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2019 updates: Pragya Thakur ahead of Digvijaya Singh in Bhopal"},"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-311347 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sadhvi-pragya-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/sadhvi-pragya-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/sadhvi-pragya.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/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&#8217;s Pragya Singh Thakur is leading in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, against the Congress&#8217;s Digvijaya Singh as votes were counted on Thursday in the Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pragya is leading with a margin of 34000 votes, according to EC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bhopal has been a BJP stronghold for three decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pragya Thakur had taken a &#8220;maun vrat&#8221; or oath of silence till counting day after her comments on Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s assassin Nathuram Godse made a huge controversy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bhopal voted on May 12 in the sixth phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP&#8217;s Pragya Singh Thakur is leading in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, against the Congress&#8217;s Digvijaya Singh as votes were counted on Thursday in the Lok Sabha elections. Pragya is leading with a margin of 34000 votes, according to EC. Bhopal has been a BJP stronghold for three decades. Pragya Thakur had taken a &#8220;maun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2923,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[5029,9474,1043,11377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312541"}],"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=312541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312542,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312541\/revisions\/312542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}