{"id":1104,"date":"2018-06-06T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:10","slug":"shiv-sena-to-fight-alone-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/shiv-sena-to-fight-alone-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiv Sena to fight alone in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shiv Sena\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0announced the party will not go for any alliance with the Bharatiya Janaata Party (BJP), and contest in next year\u2019s general election on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Despite facing defeat in recently-held Palghar by-election, Shiv Sena in its mouthpiece \u201cSaamana\u201d has said that unlike BJP, they did not need a &#8216;poster boy&#8217; (aimed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi) and they could fight on their own. Also, Shiv Sena criticised BJP&#8217;s \u201cSampark for Samarthan\u201d (contact for support) initiative, saying BJP had lost all connect with the common people.<\/p>\n<p>The party mouthpiece took the example of Telugu Desam Party\u2019s exit from BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to claim that not only Shiv Sena but several other parties who are allied with the BJP were clearly unhappy with them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shiv Sena\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0announced the party will not go for any alliance with the Bharatiya Janaata Party (BJP), and contest in next&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}