{"id":14914,"date":"2021-04-20T14:19:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=14914"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:49:32","slug":"election-commission-bosses-sushil-chandra-rajiv-kumar-test-positive-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/election-commission-bosses-sushil-chandra-rajiv-kumar-test-positive-for-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Election commission bosses Sushil Chandra, Rajiv Kumar test positive for COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra has tested positive for COVID. His colleague, election commissioner Rajiv Kumar also tested positive for coronavirus. Chandra recently took over as CEC from Sunil Arora.<\/p>\n<p>Both Chandra and Kumar will work from home, it is learnt.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a massive surge of COVID-19 across the country, with India recording 2.59 lakh cases on a single day on Tuesday. After Arora\u2019s retirement, it is a two-bench Election Commission with Sushil Chandra and Rajiv Kumar at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra has tested positive for COVID. His colleague, election commissioner Rajiv Kumar also tested positive for coronavirus. Chandra&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":14813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[752,1550,246,346,386,525,201,371,583],"class_list":["post-14914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-cec-sunil-arora","tag-cec-sushil-chandra","tag-coronavirus-in-india","tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","tag-covid-19-and-schools","tag-covid-19-vaccine","tag-election-commission","tag-lockdown-in-india","tag-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914","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=14914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}