{"id":31664,"date":"2021-05-02T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T12:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/02\/narendra-modi-loses-key-state-election-west-bengal-covid-grips-india"},"modified":"2021-05-03T01:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T16:38:36","slug":"narendra-modi-loses-key-state-election-as-covid-grips-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31664","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi loses key state election as Covid grips India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister defeated in West Bengal as voters send message over handling of coronavirus crisis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India\u2019s prime minister has suffered a rare political defeat in a key state election, amid signs of a voter backlash over his handling of the coronavirus disaster as the country reported a record number of deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi had been expected to make significant gains on Sunday in West Bengal, one of few states where his rightwing Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) does not have a parliamentary majority. Instead, Mamata Banerjee, a powerful regional politician and prominent Modi critic, won a third term as chief minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/02\/narendra-modi-loses-key-state-election-west-bengal-covid-grips-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister defeated in West Bengal as voters send message over handling of coronavirus crisisCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s prime minister has suffered a rare political defeat in a key state election, amid signs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2151,"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":[1066,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31664","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\/2151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31678,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31664\/revisions\/31678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}