{"id":42338,"date":"2022-03-11T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/10\/bjp-claims-victory-four-state-elections-uttar-pradesh-yogi-adityanath"},"modified":"2022-03-11T00:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:05:24","slug":"bjp-claims-election-victory-in-four-states-including-uttar-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42338","title":{"rendered":"BJP claims election victory in four states including Uttar Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Win secures status of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu monk known for his hardline views<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has claimed victory in four significant state elections, in a sign of the power of Hindu nationalist politics across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP defied historical precedent and retained power in Uttar Pradesh, India\u2019s most populous and politically significant state with more than 180 million voters. Early results on Thursday showed the party had won at least 266 out of 403 seats, giving it a clear majority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/10\/bjp-claims-victory-four-state-elections-uttar-pradesh-yogi-adityanath\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Win secures status of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu monk known for his hardline viewsIndia\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has claimed victory in four significant state elections, in a sign of the power of Hindu nationalist politics across th&#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":[516,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","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\/42338","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=42338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42339,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42338\/revisions\/42339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}