{"id":12420,"date":"2019-12-24T16:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T07:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/24\/india-jharkhand-election-modi-bjp-loses-citizenship-protests"},"modified":"2019-12-24T23:07:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T14:07:05","slug":"modis-party-loses-fifth-state-election-in-a-year-as-india-rocked-by-citizenship-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12420","title":{"rendered":"BJP loses fifth state election as India rocked by citizenship protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalists win 25 of 81 seats in Jharkhand, ending five years of rule<\/p>\n<p>The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist party has lost a key state election, a setback for the party as it faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/21\/citizenship-act-tushar-gandhi-great-grandson-india-muslim-infiltrators-backlash\">huge anti-government protests<\/a> against a new citizenship law.<\/p>\n<p>According to results announced by country\u2019s Election Commission late on Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, yielded power to an alliance forged among the opposition Congress party and powerful regional groups in eastern Jharkhand state, where the voting took place this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/24\/india-jharkhand-election-modi-bjp-loses-citizenship-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalists win 25 of 81 seats in Jharkhand, ending five years of ruleThe Indian prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist party has lost a key state election, a setback for the party as it faces huge anti-government protests again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,447,433,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-islam","category-narendra-modi","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12431,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420\/revisions\/12431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}