{"id":50366,"date":"2024-04-03T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50366"},"modified":"2024-04-03T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:51:07","slug":"rahul-gandhi-files-nomination-for-india-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50366","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi files nomination for India election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thousands of supporters thronged India&#8217;s most prominent opposition leader Rahul Gandhi during a campaign procession Wednesday ahead of his formal nomination for national elections starting this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gandhi is the son, grandson, and great-grandson of former prime ministers, but has already suffered two landslide defeats against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>He is the leading figure in an opposition alliance fighting an uphill battle in this year&#8217;s polls against Modi, who remains broadly popular after a decade in power and is widely expected to comfortably retain office.<\/p>\n<p>But Gandhi was given a rousing reception in Wayanad, a picturesque town in the southern state of Kerala, with a huge crowd gathering to cheer his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think of you as my electorate but as my family,&#8221; he told the large gathering from atop a truck, flanked by his younger sister Priyanka and cadres from his Congress party.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old formally filed his nomination to recontest Wayanad with the local election office after the rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of supporters thronged India&#8217;s most prominent opposition leader Rahul Gandhi during a campaign procession Wednesday ahead of his formal nomination for national elections starting this month. Gandhi is the son, grandson, and great-grandson of former prime ministers, but has already suffered two landslide defeats against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He is the leading figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1020],"class_list":["post-50366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-rahul-gandhi-files-nomination-for-india-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}