{"id":3406,"date":"2009-02-10T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2009-02-10T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T08:43:09","slug":"indian-candidate-likely-for-bukit-selambau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/02\/10\/indian-candidate-likely-for-bukit-selambau\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian candidate likely for Bukit Selambau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anwar Ibrahim is <a href=\"http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/97963\" target=\"_blank\">quoted<\/a> saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most probably we&#8217;ll also choose an Indian candidate in place,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PKR&#8217;s B Kalaivanar, who contested the Gurun state seat in the last general election, is touted as an early favourite. Kalaivanar had lost to MCA&#8217;s Leong Yong Kong in the previous outing.<\/p>\n<p>Anwar wrote in his blog thanking Arumugam for his services to the party. For the record, Arumugam won the Bukit Selambau seat by defeating Barisan Nasional (MIC) candidate S Krishnan with a majority of 7,695 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anwar Ibrahim is quoted saying: &#8220;Most probably we&#8217;ll also choose an Indian candidate in place,&#8221; PKR&#8217;s B Kalaivanar, who contested the Gurun state seat in the last general election, is touted as an early favourite. Kalaivanar had lost to MCA&#8217;s Leong Yong Kong in the previous outing. Anwar wrote in his blog thanking Arumugam for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[196,199,62,225],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-elections","tag-kedah","tag-pkr","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}