{"id":12789,"date":"2017-12-11T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=12789"},"modified":"2017-12-11T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T10:48:28","slug":"rahul-gandhi-has-been-elected-as-party-president-unopposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rahul-gandhi-has-been-elected-as-party-president-unopposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi has been elected as party president unopposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sahil Gandhi will take over the reins of the party from his mother and current president, Sonia Gandhi, on December 16<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/62021167-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/62021167-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/62021167.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nDelhi: Dec 11: Rahul Gandhi was named the next president of the Congress on Monday. He will take over from his mother Sonia Gandhi, who has been the longest-serving party president so far, after having taken charge in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Congress holds press conference. Party election committe head, Mullappally Ramachandran, announces Rahul Gandhi has been elected as party president unopposed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DQwdE2gUMAAGsnx-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DQwdE2gUMAAGsnx-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DQwdE2gUMAAGsnx-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DQwdE2gUMAAGsnx.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Returning Officer of the Election Commission M Ramachandran said, \u201c89 nomination papers proposing the name of Rahul Gandhi for Congress president have been received. All the nomination papers have been found valid.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahil Gandhi will take over the reins of the party from his mother and current president, Sonia Gandhi, on December 16 Delhi: Dec 11: Rahul Gandhi was named the next president of the Congress on Monday. He will take over from his mother Sonia Gandhi, who has been the longest-serving party president so far, after [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315,318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories","category-tricity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12794,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions\/12794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}