{"id":88819,"date":"2019-04-16T02:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/16\/the-two-mps-of-british-descent-who-do-not-have-to-stand-in-indian-election\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T02:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T00:00:37","slug":"the-two-mps-of-british-descent-who-do-not-have-to-stand-in-indian-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=88819","title":{"rendered":"The two MPs of British descent who do not have to stand in Indian election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo-Indian George Baker, who occupies one of two reserved seats that are a relic of colonial rule, speaks to Michael SafiWinning a seat in India\u2019s parliament can take months of gruelling campaigning across vast electorates, often in stifling heat. Unless you are George Baker.The award-winning actor from eastern India is one of just two members of the country\u2019s 545-seat lower house whose name will not appear on any ballot in India\u2019s six-week election season, which kicked off on Thursday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/16\/the-two-mps-of-british-descent-who-do-not-have-to-stand-in-indian-election\" target=\"_blank\">The two MPs of British descent who do not have to stand in Indian election<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo-Indian George Baker, who occupies one of two reserved seats that are a relic of colonial rule, speaks to Michael SafiWinning a seat in India\u2019s parliament can take months of gruelling campaigning across vast electorates, often in stifling heat. Unless you are George Baker.The award-winning actor from eastern India is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}