{"id":11768,"date":"2020-12-02T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=11768"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:59:45","slug":"gautam-gambhir-to-campaign-for-bjp-in-jammu-and-kashmirs-ddc-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/02\/gautam-gambhir-to-campaign-for-bjp-in-jammu-and-kashmirs-ddc-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Gambhir to Campaign for BJP in Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s DDC Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Cricketer turned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, Gautam Gambhir, will campaign for the party in the ongoing district development council (DDC) polls in Jammu and Kashmir, likely next week, a source in the party said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGambhir will participate as a star BJP campaigner in the DDC polls in Jammu and Kashmir elections expectedly on December 7-9,\u201d said the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The eight-phase DDC polls started on November 28 and will conclude on December 19. Counting of votes will be done on December 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BJP leaders in West Bengal also have shown interest in Gambhir as a campaigner, who has a \u201chuge\u201d fan following in the state as he was the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, the source said. He may campaign for the BJP \u201cin a big way\u201d during the West Bengal assembly elections next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe party is exploring options how to cash in on Gambhir\u2019s persona and his popularity in the campaigning for the high-stakes West Bengal assembly elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Cricketer turned Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, Gautam Gambhir, will campaign for the party in the ongoing district development council (DDC) polls in Jammu&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11768","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}