{"id":39356,"date":"2026-08-04T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/04\/modis-party-faces-setback-in-crucial-india-by-election-following-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:04:08","slug":"modis-party-faces-setback-in-crucial-india-by-election-following-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/04\/modis-party-faces-setback-in-crucial-india-by-election-following-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi&#8217;s Party Faces Setback in Crucial India By-Election Following Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Electoral Setback for Modi\u2019s Party in Bihar<\/h3>\n<p>In a notable turn of events, Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faced a loss in a key by-election held in Bihar on Monday. This defeat marks the first significant challenge for Modi since he replaced his education minister in response to widespread student protests across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Prashant Kishor, a political strategist making his debut as the founder of the Jan Suraaj Party, secured a victory over BJP candidate Neeraj Kumar in the Bankipur assembly seat, winning by more than 19,000 votes, as reported by the Election Commission of India.<\/p>\n<p>The Bankipur seat has been a stronghold for the BJP, having voted for the party in four consecutive terms since 2010, with the latest representative being Nitin Nabin, the party president. This election served as a crucial test for Modi and his party, particularly after the recent protests that questioned the BJP&#8217;s appeal among young voters in the country.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electoral Setback for Modi\u2019s Party in Bihar In a notable turn of events, Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faced a loss in a key by-election held in Bihar on Monday. This defeat marks the first significant challenge for Modi since he replaced his education minister in response to widespread student protests across<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[471,66],"class_list":["post-39356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-india-news","tag-india","tag-narendra-modi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}