{"id":2073,"date":"2002-06-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/06\/11\/2002-06-11-nuclear-scientist-likely-to-be-india-s-next-president\/"},"modified":"2002-06-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-11T12:00:00","slug":"2002-06-11-nuclear-scientist-likely-to-be-india-s-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/06\/11\/2002-06-11-nuclear-scientist-likely-to-be-india-s-next-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Scientist Likely to be India&#8217;s Next President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/south_asia\/newsid_2037000\/2037028.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>DELHI, INDIA, June 11, 2002: India&#8217;s governing coalition, the National Democratic Alliance, has chosen a leading defense scientist and a Muslim, A P J Abdul Kalam, as its new presidential candidate. The selection of the man who headed India&#8217;s guided missile program and nuclear weapons tests four years ago follows days of intense deliberations by coalition leaders. Analysts say that Mr. Kalam&#8217;s nomination is an attempt by the NDA to ensure a presidential election free of bitter party rivalry. Mr Kalam would become India&#8217;s third Muslim president, a largely ceremonial post, if elected in next month&#8217;s poll. The voting is done by the several thousand legislators of all States and the Federal government.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE DELHI, INDIA, June 11, 2002: India&#8217;s governing coalition, the National Democratic Alliance, has chosen a leading defense,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}