{"id":319267,"date":"2020-01-25T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T10:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319267"},"modified":"2020-01-25T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T10:58:24","slug":"ec-bans-bjps-kapil-mishra-from-campaigning-for-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ec-bans-bjps-kapil-mishra-from-campaigning-for-48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"EC bans BJP\u2019s Kapil Mishra from campaigning for 48 hours"},"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-319239 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kapil-mishra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kapil-mishra.jpg 602w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kapil-mishra-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kapil-mishra-521x420.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/>The Election Commission (EC)on Saturday imposed a 48-hour campaigning ban on Kapil Mishra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Delhi\u2019s Model Town constituency following his controversial tweets, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ban order would come into force from 5 pm on Saturday, officials added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While Twitter had taken down one of his controversial \u2018India vs Pak\u2019 tweets on Friday following directions of the EC, an FIR was lodged against him for creating enmity among classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a series of provocative tweets posted on Thursday, Mishra had said Pakistani rioters had taken over the streets of Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPakistan has made its entry in Shaheen Bagh. Mini Pakistans are being formed in Delhi. Indian law is not being followed in Shaheen Bagh, Chandbagh, Indralok,\u201d he had said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another post, he had said there will be a contest on Delhi streets between India and Pakistan on February 8.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission (EC)on Saturday imposed a 48-hour campaigning ban on Kapil Mishra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Delhi\u2019s Model Town constituency following his controversial tweets, officials said. The ban order would come into force from 5 pm on Saturday, officials added. While Twitter had taken down one of his controversial \u2018India vs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[9989,2217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319267"}],"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=319267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319270,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319267\/revisions\/319270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}