{"id":14228,"date":"2020-02-12T00:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/11\/india-modi-ruling-party-poised-to-lose-delhi-election-after-polarising-campaign"},"modified":"2020-02-12T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:14:50","slug":"modis-party-concedes-defeat-in-delhi-after-polarising-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14228","title":{"rendered":"Modi&#8217;s party concedes defeat in Delhi after polarising campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-establishment AAP on course to win 62 seats after BJP played up anti-Muslim rhetoric <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has suffered a major defeat in another key state election, after failing to win over voters in Delhi with a campaign that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/06\/feed-them-bullets-not-biriyani-bjp-uses-delhi-elections-to-stoke-religious-hatred\">one of its most polarising yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-establishment Aam Aadmi party (AAP), which has governed the capital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/feb\/10\/modi-dealt-huge-blow-as-anti-corruption-party-sweeps-delhi-elections\">for the past five years<\/a>, is on course to win 62 seats in the 70-seat assembly after running on an agenda centred on anti-corruption, healthcare and education, which have hugely improved during its time in power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/11\/india-modi-ruling-party-poised-to-lose-delhi-election-after-polarising-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-establishment AAP on course to win 62 seats after BJP played up anti-Muslim rhetoric India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has suffered a major defeat in another key state election, after failing to win over voters in Delhi with a campaign that wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[353,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","category-narendra-modi","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\/14228","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions\/14229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}