{"id":62607,"date":"2024-03-16T21:18:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T12:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/16\/india-to-hold-worlds-biggest-election-in-seven-stages-from-april"},"modified":"2024-03-16T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T12:18:28","slug":"india-to-hold-worlds-biggest-election-in-seven-stages-from-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62607","title":{"rendered":"India to hold world\u2019s biggest election in seven stages from April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modi favourite to win third term in largest democratic exercise in history held across six weeks <\/p>\n<p>India is to hold a national election in April it has been announced, in what will be the world\u2019s largest election with nearly a billion people eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Many consider Modi\u2019s re-election a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/31\/bjp-modi-india-general-election-2024\">foregone conclusion<\/a>, owing to both the premier\u2019s robust popularity a decade after taking office and a glaringly uneven playing field.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/16\/india-to-hold-worlds-biggest-election-in-seven-stages-from-april\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi favourite to win third term in largest democratic exercise in history held across six weeks India is to hold a national election in April it has been announced, in what will be the world\u2019s largest election with nearly a billion people eligible to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"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-62607","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\/62607","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62608,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62607\/revisions\/62608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}