{"id":489307,"date":"2022-05-05T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489307"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T05:28:51","slug":"aap-may-enter-kerala-fray-via-a-by-poll-with-silverline-on-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aap-may-enter-kerala-fray-via-a-by-poll-with-silverline-on-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP may enter Kerala fray via a by-poll with SilverLine on agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year since the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government returned to power in Kerala, it faces a crucial by-poll in Thrikkakara in Ernakulam district on May 31 that is being seen as a referendum on its flagship SilverLine semi high-speed railway project.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed railway line, which aims to reduce travel time between the state\u2019s northern and southern ends, cuts through Thrikkakara and after the poll schedule was announced both the LDF and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) said it would be the main political agenda of the by-election. The Congress currently holds the seat and the by-poll was necessitated by the death of its legislator PT Thomas last December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year since the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government returned to power in Kerala, it faces a crucial by-poll in Thrikkakara in Ernakulam district on May 31 that is being seen as a referendum on its flagship SilverLine semi high-speed railway project. The proposed railway line, which aims to reduce travel time between the state\u2019s northern and southern ends, cuts through Thrikkakara and after the poll schedule was announced both the LDF and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) said it would be the main political agenda of the by-election. The Congress currently holds the seat and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}