{"id":15190,"date":"2021-05-10T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:52:57","slug":"suvendu-adhikari-chosen-leader-of-opposition-in-bengal-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/suvendu-adhikari-chosen-leader-of-opposition-in-bengal-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Suvendu Adhikari chosen Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Suvendu Adhikari has been elected as the Leader of Opposition of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Suvendu Adhikari, a former Trinamool Congress minister, is now a BJP MLA from Nandigram constituency. In the recently concluded 2021 Assembly polls, he beat Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram by less than 2,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Another former Trinamool leader now with the BJP &#8212; Mukul Roy &#8212; was not chosen as the Leader of Opposition due to age and party leaders said that Adhikari, much younger than him, is more fit for the position. In the run-up to the Assembly election, Adhikari had led an aggressive attack on Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Suvendu Adhikari has been elected as the Leader of Opposition of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Suvendu Adhikari, a former Trinamool Congress minister, is now a BJP MLA from Nandigram constituency. In the recently concluded 2021 Assembly polls, he beat Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram by less than 2,000 votes. Another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":10883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,2515,49,513,709,583,46,50,267],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-bjp","9":"tag-leader-of-opposition","10":"tag-mamata-banerjee","11":"tag-nandigram","12":"tag-suvendu-adhikari","13":"tag-top-story","14":"tag-trinamool-congress","15":"tag-west-bengal","16":"tag-west-bengal-assembly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190","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=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}