{"id":960,"date":"2019-04-06T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/?p=960"},"modified":"2019-04-06T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T18:05:19","slug":"shatrughan-sinha-joins-congress-likely-to-contest-from-bihars-patna-sahib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/shatrughan-sinha-joins-congress-likely-to-contest-from-bihars-patna-sahib\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatrughan Sinha Joins Congress,  likely to contest from Bihar&#8217;s Patna Sahib!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI:<\/strong> BJP rebel Shatrughan Sinha today officially joined the Congress, nine days after meeting party president Rahul Gandhi and announcing his intention to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Shatrughan Sinha, 72, is likely to contest as the opposition alliance candidate from Bihar&#8217;s Patna Sahib, his constituency of 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>In an association that had been souring for years, the proverbial last straw was the BJP snubbing Shatrughan Sinha and naming a different candidate, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, for his Patna Sahib constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: BJP rebel Shatrughan Sinha today officially joined the Congress, nine days after meeting party president Rahul Gandhi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[68,49,237,506],"result":[],"election_2018":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lok-sabha-2019","tag-congress","tag-lok-sabha-elections-2019","tag-lok-sabha-polls-2019","tag-shatrughan-sinha"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"result","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/result?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"election_2018","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election_2018?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}