{"id":14818,"date":"2021-04-13T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T07:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=14818"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T07:01:19","slug":"bjps-rahul-sinha-banned-from-campaigning-for-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bjps-rahul-sinha-banned-from-campaigning-for-48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP\u2019s Rahul Sinha banned from campaigning for 48 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and candidate from Habra constituency, has been banned by the Election Commission from campaigning for 48 hours over provocative statements and for \u201cinciting central forces\u201d. The EC said this on Tuesday. Habra goes to the polls on April 22.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/mamata-banerjee-banned-from-campaigning-for-24-hours\/\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><strong>West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was banned from campaigning for 24 hours<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/trinamool-congress-seeks-campaign-ban-on-dilip-ghosh-for-his-comment-on-sitalkuchi-killings\/\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><strong>The Trinamool Congress had asked for action<\/strong><\/a> against Rahul Sinha and BJP\u2019s Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh for what the party termed \u201cinflammatory\u201d remarks on the killing of four persons in Cooch Behar\u2019s Sitalkuchi when elections were under way on Saturday. Trinamool Congress complained to the EC that BJP leaders were \u201cinstigating\u201d violence with warnings of more such incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinamool mentioned Dilip Ghosh\u2019s speech of April 11, in Baranagar, in which he warned of similar incidents if anyone \u201ccrossed the line\u201d. Rahul Sinha had said at a public meeting that <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/sitalkuchi-killings-after-dilip-ghosh-bjp-leader-rahul-sinha-says-not-4-but-8-persons-should-have-been-shot-dead\/\" data-schema-attribute=\"\"><strong>\u201cNot four, but eight persons should have been shot dead in Sitalkuchi\u201d<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and candidate from Habra constituency, has been banned by the Election Commission from campaigning for 48 hours over provocative statements and for \u201cinciting central forces\u201d. The EC said this on Tuesday. Habra goes to the polls on April 22. On Monday evening, West Bengal chief minister and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":14819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[387,57,752,1550,727,156,201,49,211,1545,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","9":"tag-bjp","10":"tag-cec-sunil-arora","11":"tag-cec-sushil-chandra","12":"tag-central-paramilitary-force","13":"tag-dilip-ghosh","14":"tag-election-commission","15":"tag-mamata-banerjee","16":"tag-rahul-sinha","17":"tag-sitalkuchi","18":"tag-top-story","19":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","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=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}