{"id":41556,"date":"2022-02-10T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T08:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/10\/india-uttar-pradesh-biggest-state-begins-voting-test-of-narendra-modi-popularity"},"modified":"2022-02-10T17:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T08:47:02","slug":"indias-biggest-state-begins-voting-in-key-test-of-narendra-modi-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41556","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s biggest state begins voting in key test of Narendra Modi popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If BJP holds Uttar Pradesh it would bolster ruling party\u2019s claim for third victory in 2024 parliamentary polls<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has begun voting in the first of a series of local elections that will be a test of the popularity of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>With a population almost as big as that of Brazil, keeping power in the bellwether state would bolster the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in its claim for a third successive victory at nationwide parliamentary polls due by 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/10\/india-uttar-pradesh-biggest-state-begins-voting-test-of-narendra-modi-popularity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If BJP holds Uttar Pradesh it would bolster ruling party\u2019s claim for third victory in 2024 parliamentary pollsIndia\u2019s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has begun voting in the first of a series of local elections that will be a test of the popularity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[516,62,433,1712,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-rahul-gandhi","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\/41556","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41557,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41556\/revisions\/41557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}