{"id":318963,"date":"2020-01-17T03:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318963"},"modified":"2020-01-17T03:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:42:59","slug":"congress-to-announce-candidates-for-delhi-assembly-elections-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-to-announce-candidates-for-delhi-assembly-elections-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to announce candidates for Delhi Assembly Elections today"},"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-306862 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress-619x420.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/>The Congress will announce on Friday its list of candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The candidates were finalised after a meeting of the Congress Election Committee on Thursday, the party&#8217;s Delhi unit president Subash Chopra said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress has not been able to finalise candidates for New Delhi seats from where Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is contesting elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday released the list of 70 candidates for\u00a0Delhi Assembly polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting for the 70 Assembly seats in Delhi will take place on February 8 and the counting of votes is scheduled on February 11.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress will announce on Friday its list of candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls. The candidates were finalised after a meeting of the Congress Election Committee on Thursday, the party&#8217;s Delhi unit president Subash Chopra said. The Congress has not been able to finalise candidates for New Delhi seats from where Chief Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[236,12271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318963"}],"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=318963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318964,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318963\/revisions\/318964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}