{"id":119717,"date":"2017-03-15T16:44:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=51147"},"modified":"2017-03-15T16:44:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:14:06","slug":"shiv-sena-uttar-pradesh-results-rams-exile-temple-come-soon-indian-express-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119717","title":{"rendered":"Shiv Sena on Uttar Pradesh results: Ram\u2019s exile over, temple should come up soon | The Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting cautiously to the BJP\u2019s unprecedented success in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, NDA partner Shiv Sena said it now hopes the Ram temple is constructed soon in Ayodhya. Sena leader and MP Sanjay Raut claimed the party stopped the BJP wave in Mumbai and Maharashtra, which underlines the Sena\u2019s strength and importance in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLord Ram\u2019s exile is over and we now hope that a Ram temple will be constructed in Ayodhya soon,\u201d said Raut, after congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u00a0for the victory in UP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who have lost the polls will now realise the Sena\u2019s strength and importance for stopping the Modi wave in the recent polls (in Maharashtra),\u201d Raut added.<\/p>\n<p>The Shiv Sena and the BJP, which have strained relations despite sharing power in the state and the Centre, fought the recent local body polls across Maharashtra separately, including in Mumbai. In the Mumbai municipality, the Sena emerged as the single largest party with 84 seats and the BJP won 82.<\/p>\n<p>Raut claimed the Assembly election results declared Saturday would not have any impact on Maharashtra politics. \u201cWe will talk about the state politics after a week. By then, the current wave would have abated and new governments would have been formed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sena had contested 50 seats in UP and five in Goa but did not win any in either state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reacting cautiously to the BJP\u2019s unprecedented success in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, NDA partner Shiv Sena said it now hopes the Ram temple is constructed soon in Ayodhya. Sena leader and MP Sanjay Raut claimed the party stopped the BJP wave in Mumbai and Maharashtra, which underlines the Sena\u2019s strength and importance in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}