{"id":62579,"date":"2014-01-04T22:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T18:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=62579"},"modified":"2014-01-04T22:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T18:56:54","slug":"indian-prime-minister-manmohan-singh-to-step-down-after-election-due-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=62579","title":{"rendered":"Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to step down after election due in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/manmohan-singh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-62576\" alt=\" \u0544\u0561\u0576\u0574\u0578\u0570\u0561\u0576 \u054d\u056b\u0576\u0563\u056d \" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/manmohan-singh.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/manmohan-singh.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/manmohan-singh-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/manmohan-singh-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that he will step down after his country&#8217;s national elections due in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a few months&#8217; time, after the general election, I will hand the baton over to a new prime minister,&#8221; Singh told a news conference in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The 81-year-old Oxford-educated Singh has been prime minister for India&#8217;s governing Congress party since May 2004.<\/p>\n<p>His move to rule himself out of the race for the top job in this year&#8217;s general elections didn&#8217;t surprise political observers.<\/p>\n<p>His party suffered a bruising defeat in regional elections in December, billed by the country&#8217;s news media as an indicator of political trends ahead of the upcoming national vote.<\/p>\n<p>A rash of corruption scandals has also undermined the reputation of Singh&#8217;s coalition government over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that he will step down after his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":62576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[543,5298],"class_list":["post-62579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-india","tag-manmohan-singh","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}