{"id":50051,"date":"2024-02-14T08:11:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T08:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=50051"},"modified":"2024-02-14T08:11:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T08:11:29","slug":"congress-nominates-abhishek-singhvi-for-rajya-sabha-elections-in-himachal-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/congress-nominates-abhishek-singhvi-for-rajya-sabha-elections-in-himachal-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Nominates Abhishek Singhvi for Rajya Sabha Elections in Himachal Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEW DELHI, Feb 14:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Congress on Wednesday nominated noted lawyer Abhishek Singhvi for Rajya Sabha polls from Himachal Pradesh, while also officially declaring former party chief Sonia Gandhi\u2019s candidature from Rajasthan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; According to a statement, the party has also renominated its Bihar unit chief Akhilesh Prasad Singh from the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCongress President Shri Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the candidature of the following persons as Congress candidates to contest the biennial elections to the Council of States from the states,\u201d said the statement which also carried the names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party has fielded its leader Chandrakant Handore from Maharashtra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonia Gandhi is already in Jaipur for filing her nomination papers from Rajasthan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biennial elections to fill 56 seats of Rajya Sabha will be held on February 27. The last date for filing of nominations is February 15. (Agencies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Feb 14:\u00a0 The Congress on Wednesday nominated noted lawyer Abhishek Singhvi for Rajya Sabha polls from Himachal Pradesh, while also officially declaring former party chief Sonia Gandhi\u2019s candidature from Rajasthan. &nbsp; According to a statement, the party has also renominated its Bihar unit chief Akhilesh Prasad Singh from the state. \u201cCongress President Shri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[444,1032,1929,73,1033,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-50051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-earlypostdaily","11":"tag-himachal-pradesh","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-latestnews","14":"tag-rajya-sabha-elections"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50051","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=50051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50053,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50051\/revisions\/50053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}