{"id":48374,"date":"2024-03-29T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/?p=48374"},"modified":"2024-03-29T07:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:04:40","slug":"nirmala-sitharaman-on-not-contesting-for-lok-sabha-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/nirmala-sitharaman-on-not-contesting-for-lok-sabha-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirmala Sitharaman on not contesting for Lok Sabha, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman opened up about not contesting Lok Sabha elections after she was offered to contest either from Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the sources, the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has declined the BJP&#8217;s offer as she didn&#8217;t have the kind of required fund to contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Finance Minister said, &#8220;After thinking for a week or ten days, I went back to say, &#8216;Maybe not&#8217;. I do not have that kind of money to contest. I also have a problem, whether it is in Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu. It&#8217;s also going to be a question of various other winnability criteria that they use\u2026 Are you from this community, or are you from that religion? Are you from this? I said no, I do not think I am going to be able to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman opened up about not contesting Lok Sabha elections after she was offered to contest either from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themileage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2021_2img01_Feb_2021_PTI02_01_2021_000156B-800x400-1.jpg?fit=800%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48379,"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions\/48379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themileage.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}