{"id":25235,"date":"2024-04-12T06:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/former-laxmipur-mla-kailash-kulesika-joins-bjp-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T06:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:06:28","slug":"former-laxmipur-mla-kailash-kulesika-joins-bjp-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/former-laxmipur-mla-kailash-kulesika-joins-bjp-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Laxmipur MLA Kailash Kulesika joins BJP &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-524300\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header post-tp-1-header\">\n<div class=\"single-featured\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix single-post-content\">\n<p>Bhubaneswar: Former Laxmipur MLA Kailash Kulesika today joined the BJP ahead of the twin elections in Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>His decision came a day after the BJD re-nominated sitting MLA Prabhu Jani from the Laxmipur seat.<\/p>\n<p>Kulesika, who had joined the BJD in 2021, was expecting a ticket from the regional party for contesting the assembly polls from the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had joined the BJD as the party had promised me to give ticket from Laxmipur. The people of the state will give a befitting reply to the BJD as the party has betrayed me,\u201d the ex-legislator said.<\/p>\n<p>He had unsuccessfully contested the assembly elections from Laxmipur as an independent candidate in 2009. However, he emerged victorious in the 2014 polls by contesting as a Congress candidate from the seat.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 elections, he lost to BJD\u2019s Prabhu Jani by a narrow margin of mere 229 votes in the constituency.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; Bhubaneswar: Former Laxmipur MLA Kailash Kulesika today joined the BJP ahead of the twin elections in Odisha. His decision came a day after the BJD re-nominated sitting MLA Prabhu Jani from the Laxmipur seat. Kulesika, who had joined the BJD in 2021, was expecting a ticket from the regional party for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25237,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25235\/revisions\/25237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}