{"id":66201,"date":"2024-08-14T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/priyanka-gandhi-congress-party-pins-hopes-on-charismatic-member-of-indias-political-dynasty"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T01:00:28","slug":"priyanka-gandhi-congress-party-pins-hopes-on-charismatic-member-of-indias-political-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66201","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Gandhi: Congress party pins hopes on charismatic member of India\u2019s political dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sister of  the Congress party leader, Rahul Gandhi, is stepping out of the wings to play a bigger role on India\u2019s political stage<\/p>\n<p>For years, Priyanka Gandhi has been a mystery to the Indian public. Considered the most charismatic member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/this-election-is-critical-for-congress-can-indias-gandhi-dynasty-survive\">Nehru-Gandhi dynasty<\/a> that has given India three prime ministers \u2013 including her mother, Sonia, and brother Rahul \u2013 she has nonetheless chosen to remain in the wings, playing a supporting role.<\/p>\n<p>For years she has resisted calls to lead from the front by her own Congress party, sections of which regard her as \u201cprime ministerial\u201d material owing to her commanding personality, instead choosing to prioritise her private life with her husband and two children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/priyanka-gandhi-congress-party-pins-hopes-on-charismatic-member-of-indias-political-dynasty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister of  the Congress party leader, Rahul Gandhi, is stepping out of the wings to play a bigger role on India\u2019s political stageFor years, Priyanka Gandhi has been a mystery to the Indian public. Considered the most charismatic member of the Nehru-Gan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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":[62,433,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","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\/66201","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66226,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66201\/revisions\/66226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}