{"id":27470,"date":"2018-04-09T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=27470"},"modified":"2018-04-09T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:54:56","slug":"bjp-announces-first-list-of-candidates-for-karnataka-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/bjp-announces-first-list-of-candidates-for-karnataka-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP announces first list of candidates for Karnataka polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janta Party has announced the first list of 72 candidates to contest in the May 12 Karnataka assembly elections for the 224 seats across the southern<\/p>\n<p>state.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken at the party&#8217;s central election committee meeting which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah and<\/p>\n<p>other senior party leaders, including Rajnath Singh at the party HQ in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Among the candidates are many of the party&#8217;s 48 sitting or outgoing legislators from the state&#8217;s northern, central and southern region, including Bengaluru, which<\/p>\n<p>has 28 assembly constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent leaders contesting the elections include party&#8217;s chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurapp, Jagadish Shettar and B. Sriramulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janta Party has announced the first list of 72 candidates to contest in the May 12 Karnataka assembly elections for the 224 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27470","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\/27470","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=27470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27472,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27470\/revisions\/27472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}