{"id":208045,"date":"2022-12-31T00:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=208045"},"modified":"2022-12-31T00:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:24:29","slug":"rahul-gandhi-to-be-oppns-pm-candidate-in-2024-polls-nath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/rahul-gandhi-to-be-oppns-pm-candidate-in-2024-polls-nath\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi to be oppn&#8217;s PM candidate in 2024 polls: Nath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 30 Dec:<\/strong> Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath on Friday said that Rahul Gandhi will be the opposition&#8217;s prime minister candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an email interview with PTI, Nath lauded Gandhi for leading the Congress&#8217; countrywide Bharat Jodo Yatra, saying that he is not doing politics for power but for the common people of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As far as the 2024 Lok Sabha election is concerned, Rahul Gandhi will not just be the face of the opposition but will be its prime ministerial candidate too,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nath also said that no one in the history of the world has undertaken such a long &#8220;padayatra.&#8221; No family other than the Gandhi family has given so many sacrifices for the country, the Congress leader said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Rahul Gandhi does not do politics for power, but for the people of the country who make anyone sit in power,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nath is the lone leader to have come forward in favour of Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s candidature for the 2024 polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 76-year-old Congress chief of Madhya Pradesh also said there is no place for &#8220;traitors&#8221; in the party after they betrayed the organisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked if there is any chance of Jyotiraditya Scindia&#8217;s return to the party in the future, Nath said, &#8220;I would not comment on any individual, but those traitors who betrayed the party and broke the trust of its workers, there is no place for them in the organisation.&#8221; (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 30 Dec: Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath on Friday said that Rahul Gandhi will be the opposition&#8217;s prime minister candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. In an email interview with PTI, Nath lauded Gandhi for leading the Congress&#8217; countrywide Bharat Jodo Yatra, saying that he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208045","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=208045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}