{"id":27312,"date":"2012-03-07T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T22:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/?guid=9055a17fb2bb920c7385d009c664ab7b"},"modified":"2012-03-07T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T22:30:09","slug":"pm-sonia-fail-to-garner-votes-for-goa-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2012\/03\/07\/pm-sonia-fail-to-garner-votes-for-goa-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"PM, Sonia fail to garner votes for Goa Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PANAJI, Mar 7 (IANS): Assembly constituencies in Goa where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Congress president Sonia Gandhi campaigned have resulted in dismal returns for the Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Sonia Gandhi`s rally at the Fatorda constituency in South Goa, 35 kms from here Feb 25 appears to have failed to cheer up the Congress voters there, with the party`s candidate M.K. Shaikh garnering a dismal 660 votes. Congress rebel Vijai Sardesai won the seat with a whopping 10,375 votes, with the BJP`s Damu Naik coming in second with 8,436 votes. Shaikh was ranked fifth in the list of performers.<\/p>\n<p>In North Goa`s Sanquelim constituency, 35 kms from here, where Manmohan Singh addressed a public rally, Congress candidate Pratap Gawas lost by a margin of 7,000 plus votes to his nearest rival, Pramod Sawant of the BJP.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2012\/03\/pm-sonia-fail-to-garner-votes-for-goa-congress\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2012\/03\/pm-sonia-fail-to-garner-votes-for-goa-congress\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PANAJI, Mar 7 (IANS): Assembly constituencies in Goa where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Congress president&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2012\/03\/pm-sonia-fail-to-garner-votes-for-goa-congress\/\">more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[330,41],"class_list":["post-27312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}