{"id":11359,"date":"2022-12-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:54:43","slug":"the-battle-of-gujarat-polls-begins-by-hardik-alpesh-jignesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/the-battle-of-gujarat-polls-begins-by-hardik-alpesh-jignesh\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle of Gujarat polls begins by Hardik, Alpesh, Jignesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/page-1-1024x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/page-1-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/page-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/page-1-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/page-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Of many prominent candidates in the fray in the\u00a0<strong>second phase of the Gujarat polls\u00a0<\/strong>are three young faces \u2014 Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mevani \u2014 who had played a key role in shaping the narrative of the 2017 state Assembly elections. Although even this time they are considered \u201cstar candidates\u201d of their parties, the three leaders have largely remained confined to their respective constituencies for what is being called their \u201cbattles of prestige\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of many prominent candidates in the fray in the\u00a0second phase of the Gujarat polls\u00a0are three young faces \u2014 Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mevani \u2014 who had played a key role in shaping the narrative of the 2017 state Assembly elections. Although even this time they are considered \u201cstar candidates\u201d of their parties, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[15498,15482,15497,12134],"class_list":["post-11359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-aap","tag-bjp","tag-congress","tag-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11362,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions\/11362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}