{"id":105497,"date":"2026-04-23T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/smacks-of-ulterior-motives-congress-to-ec-on-notice-to-kharge\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:36:09","slug":"smacks-of-ulterior-motives-congress-to-ec-on-notice-to-kharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/smacks-of-ulterior-motives-congress-to-ec-on-notice-to-kharge\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smacks of ulterior motives&#8217;: Congress to EC on notice to Kharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has submitted a preliminary response to the Election Commission&#8217;s notice concerning party president Mallikarjun Kharge&#8217;s &#8220;terrorist&#8221; remark. The party alleges the notice, citing discrepancies and a rushed deadline, indicates ulterior motives and a lack of due diligence. They have requested a week to provide a detailed reply and seek an audience with the EC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has submitted a preliminary response to the Election Commission&#8217;s notice concerning party president Mallikarjun Kharge&#8217;s &#8220;terrorist&#8221; remark. The party alleges the notice, citing discrepancies and a rushed deadline, indicates ulterior motives and a lack of due diligence. They have requested a week to provide a detailed reply and seek an audience with the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/smacks-of-ulterior-motives-congress-to-ec-on-notice-to-kharge\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Smacks of ulterior motives&#8217;: Congress to EC on notice to Kharge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":105498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}