{"id":328504,"date":"2020-11-10T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328504"},"modified":"2020-11-10T11:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:35:43","slug":"congress-wins-baroda-bypoll-in-haryana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-wins-baroda-bypoll-in-haryana\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress wins Baroda bypoll in Haryana"},"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\" \/>Congress candidate Indu Raj Narwal on Tuesday defeated his\u00a0BJP\u00a0rival and Olympian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt in the Baroda Assembly seat of Haryana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indu won with a margin of over 10,000 votes, according to the trends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Accepting the poll defeat, Haryana BJP president Om Prakash Dhankar in a tweet said, \u201cThe Baroda seat was with the Congress earlier. We could not turn this opportunity as a challenge, the seat remained with Congress itself\u2026We accept the mandate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haryana Congress chief Kumari Selja said that with their decision, the people of Baroda had given a \u201cbefitting reply\u201d to \u201canti-farmer and anti-labour forces\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe victory of Indu Raj Narwal is a win of farmers and labourers. I assure residents of Baroda that the Congress will live up to their expectations,\u201d Selja said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Baroda assembly seat fell vacant in April following the death of Krishan Hooda, who had won the seat three consecutive times.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress candidate Indu Raj Narwal on Tuesday defeated his\u00a0BJP\u00a0rival and Olympian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt in the Baroda Assembly seat of Haryana. Indu won with a margin of over 10,000 votes, according to the trends. Accepting the poll defeat, Haryana BJP president Om Prakash Dhankar in a tweet said, \u201cThe Baroda seat was with the Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[13683,236,338,13684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328504"}],"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=328504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328505,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328504\/revisions\/328505"}],"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=328504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}