{"id":64708,"date":"2024-06-06T03:13:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/05\/rahul-gandhi-india-opposition-gains-ground-election-modi"},"modified":"2024-06-06T03:13:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:13:26","slug":"bit-of-a-moment-for-rahul-gandhi-new-dawn-for-indias-opposition-but-where-to-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64708","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bit of a moment for Rahul Gandhi\u2019: new dawn for India\u2019s opposition, but where to now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIA alliance prevents Modi\u2019s BJP from forming majority but analysts say keeping it united will be difficult<\/p>\n<p>In the months building up to India\u2019s election, many pundits had already written obituaries for the country\u2019s beleaguered political opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Over his decade in power, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) government has stood accused of using the full might of the state against political opponents, with agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/14\/bjp-accused-intimidation-india-elections-gujarat\">harassing and jailing opposition leaders<\/a> or intimidating them into switching sides en masse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/05\/rahul-gandhi-india-opposition-gains-ground-election-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIA alliance prevents Modi\u2019s BJP from forming majority but analysts say keeping it united will be difficultIn the months building up to India\u2019s election, many pundits had already written obituaries for the country\u2019s beleaguered political opposition.O&#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":[62,3091,433,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-india-elections-2024","category-narendra-modi","category-rahul-gandhi","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\/64708","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=64708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64721,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64708\/revisions\/64721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}