{"id":1629,"date":"2017-07-18T05:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T05:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2017-07-18T05:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T05:29:42","slug":"indian-presidential-voting-begins-ram-nath-kovind-set-for-easy-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/indian-presidential-voting-begins-ram-nath-kovind-set-for-easy-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Presidential voting begins: Ram Nath Kovind set for easy win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ram Nath Kovind is set for an easy win in today&#8217;s election for the next President of India versus Meira Kumar, with the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance confident that the former Bihar Governor will get about 70 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has been fielded by the opposition, which has pitched the contest as a battle of ideologies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was among the first to vote in Parliament this morning, has congratulated Mr Kovind in advance and has said that &#8220;the presidential poll this time is historic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Probably for the first time no party made any undignified or unwarranted comment on the rival candidate&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: NDTV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ram Nath Kovind is set for an easy win in today&#8217;s election for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}