{"id":5571,"date":"2019-05-23T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T04:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:30","slug":"who-are-the-heavyweight-candidates-leading-in-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/who-are-the-heavyweight-candidates-leading-in-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the heavyweight candidates leading in West Bengal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early trends in West Bengal showed leads for some of the heavyweight candidates such as Trinamool Congress\u2019 Abhishek Banerjee, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Satabdi Roy.<\/p>\n<p>Abhishek Banerjee had suffered an initial setback as he was trailing behind the BJP in the first round. Later, he made up for the losses and was found leading by 7,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>South Kolkata constituency Trinamool Congress candidate Mala Roy and Jadavpur\u2019s Trinamool Congress candidate Mimi Chakraborty were also leading.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP\u2019s candidates Arjun Singh and Shantanu Thakur were leading from Barrackpore and Bongaon respectively. Babul Supriyo was leading by 24,000 votes from Asansol, leaving Trinamool Congress\u2019 Moon Moon Sen way behind.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress\u2019 Adhur Chowdhury was also leading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babul Supriyo was also leading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":5572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","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=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}