{"id":69043,"date":"2019-06-09T01:37:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=69043"},"modified":"2019-06-09T01:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:07:19","slug":"jd-u-becomes-recognized-party-in-arunachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/09\/jd-u-becomes-recognized-party-in-arunachal\/","title":{"rendered":"JD (U) becomes recognized party in Arunachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 8:<\/strong> The Janata Dal (United), headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has become a recognized state party in Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Janata Dal (United) is now a recognized state party in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Bihar,&#8221; the Election Commission of India said on Friday.<br \/>\nThe party will also be able to use its symbol, the arrow, in Arunachal Pradesh, the statement said.<br \/>\nThe JD (U) won seven seats in the 60-member assembly of the northeastern state, next only<br \/>\nto the ruling BJP, which bagged 41 seats and secured a majority.<br \/>\nAfter its success in Arunachal, JD (U) national general secretary KC Tyagi had said, &#8220;The tally entitles us to the status of the main opposition party. But we will offer full support to the BJP government&#8221; in Arunachal.<br \/>\n&#8220;Even if we get the opposition party status, we will be a friendly opposition,&#8221; Tyagi said.<br \/>\nThe JD (U) shares power with the BJP and Ram Vilas Paswan&#8217;s Lok Janshakti Party in Bihar. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 8: The Janata Dal (United), headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has become a recognized state party in Arunachal Pradesh. &#8220;The Janata Dal (United) is now a recognized state party in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Bihar,&#8221; the Election Commission of India said on Friday. The party will also be able [&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-69043","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\/69043","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=69043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}