{"id":56519,"date":"2023-07-09T01:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/08\/seven-killed-during-election-day-clashes-in-indias-west-bengal"},"modified":"2023-07-09T01:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T16:35:14","slug":"seven-killed-during-election-day-clashes-in-indias-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56519","title":{"rendered":"Seven killed during election day clashes in India\u2019s West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens more injured in state notorious for political violence during polls to elect local leaders<\/p>\n<p>At least seven people were killed and dozens more injured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> after clashes over local polls in West Bengal, a state notorious for political violence during election campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has in recent years worked hard to gain a toehold in West Bengal \u2013 ruled by a Communist party for much of its history \u2013 to expand its reach beyond its Hindi-speaking northern heartlands.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/08\/seven-killed-during-election-day-clashes-in-indias-west-bengal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens more injured in state notorious for political violence during polls to elect local leadersAt least seven people were killed and dozens more injured in India after clashes over local polls in West Bengal, a state notorious for political violence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3834,"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":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","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\/56519","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\/3834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56520,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56519\/revisions\/56520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}