{"id":315681,"date":"2019-10-15T05:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T05:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315681"},"modified":"2019-10-15T05:08:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T05:08:32","slug":"maharashtra-assembly-polls-rahul-gandhi-to-hold-two-public-rallies-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-assembly-polls-rahul-gandhi-to-hold-two-public-rallies-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Assembly polls: Rahul Gandhi to hold two public rallies today"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday will hold rallies in Maharashtra ahead of the assembly elections in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul will hold rallies in Yavatmal and Wardha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On October 13, Rahul held two rallies in Mumbai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In these rallies Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam and Milind Deora were not present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirupam on Monday used the word \u201cnikamma\u201d in a tweet at Milind Deora, which is seen as an attack on the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nirupam\u2019s tweet was a response to speculation over his absence at Rahul Gandhi\u2019s rallies in Mumbai on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said the speculations over his absence from Rahul\u2019s rally were baseless as he had informed the former Congress President about skipping the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra will vote on October 21 and the results will be announced on October 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday will hold rallies in Maharashtra ahead of the assembly elections in the state. Rahul will hold rallies in Yavatmal and Wardha. On October 13, Rahul held two rallies in Mumbai. In these rallies Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam and Milind Deora were not present. Nirupam on Monday used the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[11867,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315681"}],"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=315681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315684,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315681\/revisions\/315684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}