{"id":3277,"date":"2024-06-08T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2024-06-08T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:47:18","slug":"rahul-gandhi-nominated-to-be-leader-of-indias-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/rahul-gandhi-nominated-to-be-leader-of-indias-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi nominated to be leader of India&#8217;s opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s chief rival Rahul Gandhi was nominated on Saturday to lead India&#8217;s opposition in parliament after an election result that rescued his party from the political wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>Modi will be sworn into office for a third term this weekend following a poll that deprived his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of a majority, forcing it to rely on coalition allies to govern.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi defied analysts&#8217; expectations and exit polls to help his Congress party nearly double its parliamentary numbers, its best result since Modi was swept to power a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting of the Congress leadership on Saturday voted unanimously to recommend Gandhi&#8217;s election as India&#8217;s official opposition leader, a post that had been left vacant since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All participants unanimously passed the resolution that Rahul Gandhi should take the position of leader of opposition in the parliament,&#8221; K.C. Venugopal told a press conference after a meeting of the party&#8217;s executive.<\/p>\n<p>The nomination will be put before a meeting of the 232 lawmakers belonging to a Congress-led opposition alliance later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi is the scion of the dynasty that dominated Indian politics for decades and is the son, grandson and great-grandson of former prime ministers, beginning with independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s chief rival Rahul Gandhi was nominated on Saturday to lead India&#8217;s opposition in parliament after an election result that rescued his party from the political wilderness. Modi will be sworn into office for a third term this weekend following a poll that deprived his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}