{"id":315358,"date":"2019-09-30T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315358"},"modified":"2019-09-30T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:30:29","slug":"haryana-assembly-election-2019-wrestlers-babita-phogat-yogeshwar-dutt-among-78-candidates-in-bjps-first-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/haryana-assembly-election-2019-wrestlers-babita-phogat-yogeshwar-dutt-among-78-candidates-in-bjps-first-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana Assembly Election 2019: Wrestlers Babita Phogat, Yogeshwar Dutt among 78 candidates in BJP&#8217;s first list"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-315359 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/babita.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/babita.jpg 532w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/babita-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, former captain of India hockey team Sandeep Singh and woman wrestler Babita Phogat were among 78 candidates named by BJP for next month\u2019s assembly election in Haryana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dutt will contest from Baroda, Singh from Pehowa and Phogat will fight polls from Dadri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will contest from Karnal, the seat he won in 2014 assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The central election committee of BJP met on Sunday evening to decide candidates for the Haryana assembly election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP released its first list of candidates for 78 out of Haryana\u2019s 90 assembly seats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, former captain of India hockey team Sandeep Singh and woman wrestler Babita Phogat were among 78 candidates named by BJP for next month\u2019s assembly election in Haryana. Dutt will contest from Baroda, Singh from Pehowa and Phogat will fight polls from Dadri. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will contest from Karnal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,2014],"tags":[2758,453,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315358"}],"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=315358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315360,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315358\/revisions\/315360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}