{"id":24763,"date":"2025-02-19T05:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/gyanesh-kumar-takes-charge-as-chief-election-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T05:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T05:38:58","slug":"gyanesh-kumar-takes-charge-as-chief-election-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/19\/gyanesh-kumar-takes-charge-as-chief-election-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyanesh Kumar takes charge as chief election commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gyanesh Kumar, a retired IAS officer, has taken charge as the 26th chief election commissioner of India. He emphasised the importance of voting as the foundational step for nation-building, urging all citizens aged 18 and above to participate in elections. Kumar&#8217;s appointment has sparked political controversy, with Congress questioning the modified selection procedure.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gyanesh Kumar, a retired IAS officer, has taken charge as the 26th chief election commissioner of India. He emphasised the importance of voting as the foundational step for nation-building, urging all citizens aged 18 and above to participate in elections. Kumar&#8217;s appointment has sparked political controversy, with Congress questioning the modified selection procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24764,"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\/24763"}],"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=24763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}