{"id":312551,"date":"2019-05-23T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312551"},"modified":"2019-05-23T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T09:54:06","slug":"stellar-performance-in-lok-sabha-polls-omar-abdullah-congratulates-pm-modi-amit-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/stellar-performance-in-lok-sabha-polls-omar-abdullah-congratulates-pm-modi-amit-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stellar Performance\u2019 in Lok Sabha Polls: Omar Abdullah congratulates PM Modi, Amit Shah"},"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-305957 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/omar-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/omar-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/omar-524x420.jpg 524w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/omar.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for their party&#8217;s stellar performance in the Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Omar said Amit Shah and PM Modi had put together a winning alliance and a professional campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;So the exit polls were correct. All that&#8217;s left is to congratulate the BJP &amp; NDA for a stellar performance. Credit where credit is due PM Modi Sahib &amp; Mr Amit Shah put together a winning alliance &amp; a very professional campaign. Bring on the next five years,&#8221; Omar Abdullah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP is set for a landslide win. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA)is currently leading in over 340 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress-led UPA that was hoping to eliminate the Modi government is trailing far behind at around 100 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When the exit polls predicted over 300 seats for the NDA, Omar Abdullah, one of the most vocal critics of PM Modi and his government had said, \u201cEvery single exit poll can\u2019t be wrong! Time to switch off the TV, log out of social media &amp; wait to see if the world is still spinning on its axis on the 23rd.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for their party&#8217;s stellar performance in the Lok Sabha polls. Omar said Amit Shah and PM Modi had put together a winning alliance and a professional campaign. &#8220;So the exit polls were correct. All that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3939,895,868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312551"}],"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=312551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312554,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312551\/revisions\/312554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}