{"id":312549,"date":"2019-05-23T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312549"},"modified":"2019-05-23T09:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:31:35","slug":"elections-2019-updates-pm-modi-amit-shah-take-big-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/elections-2019-updates-pm-modi-amit-shah-take-big-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2019 updates: PM Modi, Amit Shah take big lead"},"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-299292 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Modishah-1-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Modishah-1-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Modishah-1-360x420.jpg 360w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Modishah-1.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0and\u00a0BJP President\u00a0Amit Shah\u00a0has taken big leads from Varanasi and Gandhinagar.<\/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\u00a0Election Commission\u00a0trends, PM Modi is leading by over 2.5 lakh votes whereas Amit Shah is leading by over 4.5 lakh votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NDA is set to return to power as it is leading on over 300 seats, while the Congress-led UPA, is trailing far behind at around 100 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Looking at the trends PM Modi said in his tweet, \u201cTogether we grow. Together we prosper. Together we will build a strong and inclusive India. India wins yet again!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0and\u00a0BJP President\u00a0Amit Shah\u00a0has taken big leads from Varanasi and Gandhinagar. According to the\u00a0Election Commission\u00a0trends, PM Modi is leading by over 2.5 lakh votes whereas Amit Shah is leading by over 4.5 lakh votes. The NDA is set to return to power as it is leading on over 300 seats, while the Congress-led UPA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[1194,3939,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312549"}],"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=312549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312550,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312549\/revisions\/312550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}