{"id":55082,"date":"2023-05-13T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/13\/indias-congress-party-defeats-narendra-modis-bjp-in-karnataka-state-elections"},"modified":"2023-05-13T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T09:18:45","slug":"indias-congress-party-defeats-narendra-modis-bjp-in-karnataka-state-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55082","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Congress party defeats Narendra Modi\u2019s BJP in Karnataka state elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victory deals blow to prime minister, who will seek third term in power at next year\u2019s general election<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s opposition Congress party has swept the Karnataka state elections, dealing a blow to Narendra Modi\u2019s ruling party, which had fought hard to retain power.<\/p>\n<p>As votes were counted on Saturday, it became clear Congress had won an overwhelming majority in the state and the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) quickly conceded defeat. \u201cPeople have rejected divisive politics,\u201d said Pawan Khera, a Congress party spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/13\/indias-congress-party-defeats-narendra-modis-bjp-in-karnataka-state-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory deals blow to prime minister, who will seek third term in power at next year\u2019s general electionIndia\u2019s opposition Congress party has swept the Karnataka state elections, dealing a blow to Narendra Modi\u2019s ruling party, which had fought hard to r&#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":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55082","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\/55082","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=55082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55083,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55082\/revisions\/55083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}