{"id":37413,"date":"2019-03-26T09:24:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37413"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:24:26","slug":"indias-rahul-gandhi-takes-on-the-modi-juggernaut-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37413","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Rahul Gandhi takes on the Modi juggernaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi, India (CNN)<\/cite>He is the heir apparent to India&#8217;s most powerful political <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/15\/asia\/rahul-gandhi-scion-elected-india\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">dynasty<\/a>. But over the next few months, Rahul Gandhi will face an uphill battle in the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/15\/asia\/india-election-what-to-know-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">general election<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 48-year-old was born into the Nehru-Gandhi family, whose legacy is intertwined with an independent and democratic India. He is also president of the India National Congress &#8212; the main opposition to Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/28\/asia\/india-modi-strong-leader-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Narendra Modi<\/a> and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Gandhi was a reluctant leader but has lately exceeded expectations, with his party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/19\/asia\/india-election-2019-modi-weak-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">winning key state elections<\/a> late last year. Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh had been controlled for years by the BJP and the victories there were a significant boost for a party which had been decimated in the last national election.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, India (CNN)He is the heir apparent to India&#8217;s most powerful political dynasty. But over the next few months, Rahul Gandhi will face an uphill battle in the country&#8217;s general election campaign.The 48-year-old was born into the Nehru-Gandhi family, whose legacy is intertwined with an independent and democratic India. He is also president of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}