{"id":13801,"date":"2021-03-15T13:46:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=13801"},"modified":"2021-03-15T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:52:44","slug":"amit-shah-cancels-jhargram-meeting-bjp-says-chopper-glitch-trinamool-alleges-venue-wasnt-filling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/amit-shah-cancels-jhargram-meeting-bjp-says-chopper-glitch-trinamool-alleges-venue-wasnt-filling-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Amit Shah cancels Jhargram meeting: BJP says chopper glitch, Trinamool alleges venue wasn&#8217;t filling up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday cancelled his public rally in Jhargram, scheduled at 11 AM. He addressed the meeting virtually. His second public rally at Bankura will take place as planned.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sources, due to technical issues with the chopper he is travelling in, he was unable to fly to Jhargram. He addressed the gathering through his phone which was played through the loudspeakers at the venue. \u201cThe technical fault with the chopper has restricted Amit Shah from attending his Jhargram rally. We then thought of a virtual address but since there is no large screen on stage, Shah addressed the meeting over phone. He will however, address the Bankura rally before leaving for Guwahati in Assam,\u201d the BJP official said.<\/p>\n<p>Trinamool Congress however alleged that the meeting \u201chad to be cancelled\u201d because the venue ground wasn\u2019t filling up. \u201cIt was largely empty and that\u2019s why the BJP had to cancel the meeting,\u201d a Trinamool Congress leader said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday cancelled his public rally in Jhargram, scheduled at 11 AM. He addressed the meeting virtually. His second public rally at Bankura will take place as planned. According to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sources, due to technical issues with the chopper he is travelling in, he was unable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":13802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[99,387,57,582,400,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-amit-shah","9":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","10":"tag-bjp","11":"tag-cover-story","12":"tag-jangalmahal","13":"tag-top-story","14":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801","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\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13801"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=13801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}