{"id":55005,"date":"2023-05-10T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T11:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/10\/narendra-modi-bjp-karnataka-state-election-india"},"modified":"2023-05-10T20:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T11:03:57","slug":"modi-for-next-60-years-bjp-brings-star-attraction-to-karnataka-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55005","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Modi for next 60 years\u2019: BJP brings star attraction to Karnataka election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party faces uphill task in southern state but is hoping PM\u2019s popularity can galvanise votes with general election looming<\/p>\n<p>A shower of marigold petals were flung over the crowds and cries of \u201cModi, Modi\u201d filled the ai. It could mean only one thing: election season has begun in India.<\/p>\n<p>Voting opened on Wednesday in India\u2019s southern state of Karnataka to decide who will form the next state government, and the significance of these polls is likely to stretch far beyond state borders. On Saturday, thousands filled the streets of the state capital, Bengaluru, as the prime minister, Narendra Modi, drove 20 miles through the city waving from a car in an attempt to galvanise votes for his ruling Bharatiya Janata party, one of more than 9,000 rallies and roadshows held by the BJP across the state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/10\/narendra-modi-bjp-karnataka-state-election-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party faces uphill task in southern state but is hoping PM\u2019s popularity can galvanise votes with general election loomingA shower of marigold petals were flung over the crowds and cries of \u201cModi, Modi\u201d filled the ai. It could mean only one thing: elect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3729,"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":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/55005","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\/3729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55012,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55005\/revisions\/55012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}