{"id":312640,"date":"2019-05-27T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312640"},"modified":"2019-05-27T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:43:49","slug":"chemistry-beat-arithmetic-in-elections-says-modi-in-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chemistry-beat-arithmetic-in-elections-says-modi-in-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry beat arithmetic in elections, says Modi in Varanasi"},"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-312641 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/modi-varanasi-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-varanasi-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-varanasi-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-varanasi-696x428.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-varanasi-683x420.jpg 683w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-varanasi.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/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 Narendra Modi on Monday said chemistry defeated arithmetic in the 2019 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;\">\u201cElections are all about arithmetic but there is chemistry that goes beyond poll arithmetic. This time chemistry has triumphed over arithmetic,\u201d he said at a thanksgiving function in Varanasi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He thanked Varanasi voters for electing him by a huge margin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe nation might have elected me as the PM but for you, I am a worker. For me, your orders were the priority,\u201d said Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi gave full credit for his victory to the workers at the grassroots level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI thank the workers for not making the election a war and the rival candidates for maintaining the dignity of Kashi,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi visited the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple in the city and offered prayers. He was accompanied by BJP president Amit Shah and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi on Sunday visited his home state Gujarat and took his mother\u2019s blessings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi won from Varanasi by a huge margin of 4.79 lakh votes in 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;\">The BJP won 303 out of the 542 seats in the Lok Sabha Polls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said chemistry defeated arithmetic in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. \u201cElections are all about arithmetic but there is chemistry that goes beyond poll arithmetic. This time chemistry has triumphed over arithmetic,\u201d he said at a thanksgiving function in Varanasi. He thanked Varanasi voters for electing him by a huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[316,283,1543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312640"}],"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=312640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312642,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312640\/revisions\/312642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}