{"id":308203,"date":"2023-04-11T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/11\/karnataka-bjp-veteran-quits-electoral-politics-weeks-before-polls\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T10:01:00","slug":"karnataka-bjp-veteran-quits-electoral-politics-weeks-before-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/04\/11\/karnataka-bjp-veteran-quits-electoral-politics-weeks-before-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka BJP Veteran Quits Electoral Politics, Weeks Before Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Karnataka BJP Veteran Quits Electoral Politics, Weeks Before Polls\" alt=\"Karnataka BJP Veteran Quits Electoral Politics, Weeks Before Polls\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-04\/kq9nqav8_karnataka-minister_625x300_13_April_22.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Bengaluru: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Senior BJP leader KS Eshwarappa today said he would not contest the May 10 Karnataka election amid growing speculation about the party delaying the announcement of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am withdrawing from electoral politics,&#8221; Mr Eshwarappa said in a letter to BJP president JP Nadda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The party gave me a lot of responsibilities in the last 40 years. I went from a booth in-charge to state party chief. I also had the honour of becoming Deputy Chief Minister,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This may have been a preemptive move by Mr Eshwarappa, who had hinted last month that he may be dropped as a candidate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/senior-karnataka-bjp-leader-ks-eshwarappa-says-wont-contest-election-quits-electoral-politics-3938317\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Bengaluru: Senior BJP leader KS Eshwarappa today said he would not contest the May 10 Karnataka election amid growing speculation about the party delaying the announcement of candidates. &#8220;I am withdrawing from electoral politics,&#8221; Mr Eshwarappa said in a letter to BJP president JP Nadda. &#8220;The party gave me a lot of responsibilities in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51156,257330,29861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}