{"id":27750,"date":"2012-03-14T20:46:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=6948"},"modified":"2012-03-14T20:46:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:46:44","slug":"parkash-singh-badal-takes-oath-as-punjab-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2012\/03\/14\/parkash-singh-badal-takes-oath-as-punjab-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkash Singh Badal takes oath as Punjab CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) stalwart Parkash Singh Badal was sworn-in as the chief minister of Punjab for a record fifth time on Wednesday.<br \/>\n Punjab Governor Shivraj V. Patil administered the oath of office to Badal at the historic Chapar Chiri Banda Bahadur Memorial in Fatehgarh Sahab District. Eighty-five-year-old Badal, who led the SAD-BJP combine to a thumping win in the Punjab assembly polls, had earlier headed two full five-year terms from 1997 and 2007. His other terms were in 1977-1980 and 1970-71. The SAD-BJP combine returned to power by defying the expected anti-incumbency factor.<br \/>\nThe SAD-BJP combine won 68 of the 117 seats with the SAD securing 56 seats and the BJP 12 seats. The Congress won 46 seats, while others won three.<br \/>\n Badal entered politics in 1947 and was first elected to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in 1957. He was re-elected in 1969 serving as Minister for Community Development, Panchayati Raj, Animal Husbandry,<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/parkash-singh-badal-takes-oath-as-punjab-cm\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/parkash-singh-badal-takes-oath-as-punjab-cm\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) stalwart Parkash Singh Badal was sworn-in as the chief minister of Punjab for a record fifth time on Wednesday. Punjab Governor Shivraj V. Patil administered the oath of office to Badal at the historic Chapar Chiri Banda Bahadur Memorial in Fatehgarh Sahab District. Eighty-five-year-old Badal, who led the SAD-BJP combine to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,990],"class_list":["post-27750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27751,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27750\/revisions\/27751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}