{"id":241704,"date":"2024-06-05T00:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T18:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=241704"},"modified":"2024-06-05T01:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T20:06:54","slug":"leaders-of-a-particular-religion-worked-against-nda-in-ne-himanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/leaders-of-a-particular-religion-worked-against-nda-in-ne-himanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders of a particular religion worked against NDA in NE: Himanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, 4 Jun: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed on Tuesday that the NDA lost the Lok Sabha seats in Nagaland and Meghalaya as leaders of a particular religion worked against the ruling alliance.<br \/>\nHe also indicated that it was an achievement for the BJP-led NDA to bag 11 seats out of the total 14 in Assam, a state with 40 per cent Muslim voters.<br \/>\nTalking to reporters at the BJP state head office here, Sarma said, \u201cLeaders of a particular religion openly worked against BJP and NDA in Nagaland and Meghalaya, and that religion has tremendous followers. That made the difference.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Congress won the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland, while the two constituencies of Meghalaya went to the Voice of the People Party and the Congress.<br \/>\nHe claimed losing the seats in these two states was &#8220;not political defeat&#8221;, while also maintaining that leaders of that religion &#8220;usually do not interfere in politics&#8221;.<br \/>\n\u201cThis time, for whatever reason, they interfered, even in Assam also. They have worked openly against NDA,\u201d the BJP-led NEDA convenor claimed.<br \/>\nOn BJP and its allies winning 11 seats in Assam, Sarma said, \u201cI am happy that with 40 per cent Muslim votes, I could give 11 seats to the party.\u201d (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, 4 Jun: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed on Tuesday that the NDA lost the Lok Sabha seats in Nagaland and Meghalaya as leaders of a particular religion worked against the ruling alliance. He also indicated that it was an achievement for the BJP-led NDA to bag 11 seats out of the total [&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-241704","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\/241704","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=241704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}