{"id":49788,"date":"2018-12-12T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=49788"},"modified":"2018-12-12T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T10:27:13","slug":"commonwealth-games-gold-medallist-krishna-poonia-wins-election-in-rajasthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/commonwealth-games-gold-medallist-krishna-poonia-wins-election-in-rajasthan\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games gold medallist Krishna Poonia wins election in Rajasthan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning a new innings, discus thrower Krishna Poonia, the 2010 CWG gold medallist, on Tuesday won the Sadulpur assembly seat in Rajasthan defeating sitting BSP MLA Manoj Nyangali.<\/p>\n<p>Contesting on a Congress ticket, Poonia won by a healthy margin of 18084 votes after receiving 70020 votes.<\/p>\n<p>It was Poonia&#8217;s second attempt to get an entry in the state legislature, having suffered defeat in the previous elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress won 101 seats in the house of 199 while the BJP won 73.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old athlete had hurled the disc to 61.51m to claim a gold medal at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. She had finished sixth at the 2012 London Olympics with her best throw of 63.62m, coming in the fifth attempt.<\/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>Beginning a new innings, discus thrower Krishna Poonia, the 2010 CWG gold medallist, on Tuesday won the Sadulpur assembly seat in Rajasthan defeating sitting BSP MLA Manoj Nyangali. Contesting on a Congress ticket, Poonia won by a healthy margin of 18084 votes after receiving 70020 votes. It was Poonia&#8217;s second attempt to get an entry [&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":1,"featured_media":49789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49788","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=49788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49790,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49788\/revisions\/49790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}