{"id":181910,"date":"2022-01-18T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=181910"},"modified":"2022-01-18T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:48:00","slug":"goa-elections-chidambaram-says-aap-and-tmc-will-only-fracture-non-bjp-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/goa-elections-chidambaram-says-aap-and-tmc-will-only-fracture-non-bjp-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa Elections: Chidambaram says AAP and TMC will only fracture non-BJP vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nNew Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI): Asserting that the contest in Goa is between the Congress and the BJP, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said his assessment that the AAP and the TMC will only \u201cfracture\u201d the non-BJP vote has been \u201cconfirmed\u201d by Arvind Kejriwal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His remarks came a day after AAP national convener Kejriwal\u2019s comments that his party is ready to be part of a coalition government in Goa if the February 14 assembly elections throw up a fractured mandate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chidambaram, who is the Congress\u2019 senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls, appealed to the voters of Goa to vote for a regime change and elect Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy assessment that the AAP (and the TMC) will only fracture the non-BJP vote in Goa has been confirmed by Mr Arvind Kejriwal. The contest in Goa is between Congress and BJP,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThose who want a regime change (after 10 years of misrule) will vote for the Congress. Those who want the regime to continue will vote for the BJP,\u201d Chidambaram said in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The choice before the voter in Goa is stark and clear, he said. Do you want a regime change or not, the Congress leader asked. \u201cI appeal to the voters of Goa to vote for a regime change and vote Congress,\u201d Chidambaram said. Assembly polls for all 40 seats in Goa will be held on February 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI): Asserting that the contest in Goa is between the Congress and the BJP, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said his assessment that the AAP and the TMC will only \u201cfracture\u201d the non-BJP vote has been \u201cconfirmed\u201d by Arvind Kejriwal. His remarks came a day after AAP national convener [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-181910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}