{"id":17887,"date":"2018-01-09T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=17887"},"modified":"2018-01-09T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:23:14","slug":"union-minister-hardeep-singh-puri-elected-unopposed-to-rajya-sabha-from-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/union-minister-hardeep-singh-puri-elected-unopposed-to-rajya-sabha-from-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has been elected unopposed in a by-poll to a Rajya Sabha seat from Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>The seat fell vacant following the resignation of Manohar Parrikar, who quit as defence minister after becoming the Goa chief minister. His term was to end on November 25, 2020.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nMeanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party also strengthened its position in Parliament after three of its members were elected to the Rajya Sabha, taking the number of MPs to seven.<\/p>\n<p>Party leader Sanjay Singh, chartered accountant N D Gupta and educationist Sushil Gupta received a &#8216;Certificate of Election&#8217; from the returning officer for the Rajya Sabha polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has been elected unopposed in a by-poll to a Rajya Sabha seat from Uttar Pradesh. The seat fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17952,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17887\/revisions\/17952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}