{"id":606179,"date":"2023-09-25T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T04:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=606179"},"modified":"2023-09-25T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T05:06:07","slug":"a-close-connection-between-poll-bound-states-and-vande-bharat-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-close-connection-between-poll-bound-states-and-vande-bharat-express\/","title":{"rendered":"A close connection between poll-bound states and Vande Bharat Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off nine Vande Bharat trains amid rumors that many of the previous launches had been planned with an eye on the elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana, which will take place before the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, reports News18.<\/p>\n<p>The number of trains allocated to the states that will be voting suggests otherwise, despite the Railway Ministry&#8217;s denial of the connection between the planning of train launches across states and routes and elections.<\/p>\n<p>Since April 1, the Railway Ministry has introduced at least 15 new Vande Bharat trains, and nine more will begin operating now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off nine Vande Bharat trains amid rumors that many of the previous launches had been planned with an eye on the elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Telangana, which will take place before the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, reports News18. The number of trains allocated to the states that will be voting suggests otherwise, despite the Railway Ministry&#8217;s denial of the connection between the planning of train launches across states and routes and elections. Since April 1, the Railway Ministry has introduced at least 15 new Vande Bharat trains, and nine more [&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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606179","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=606179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}