{"id":443,"date":"2006-11-01T09:37:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T04:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/11\/01\/indian-origin-teenager-to-contest-finnish-polls\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T04:07:26","slug":"indian-origin-teenager-to-contest-finnish-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/11\/01\/indian-origin-teenager-to-contest-finnish-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian origin teenager to contest Finnish polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Helsinki, Nov 1 (IANS) Alisha Hasan, 18, <\/strong>is quite unlike other teenagers in <strong>Finland<\/strong>, not because she was<strong> born in India <\/strong>and is a member of the small Indian community here. She will be <strong>one of the youngest candidates contesting Finland&#8217;s parliamentary <\/strong>polls next year.<\/p>\n<p> &#8216;I will be contesting polls from Helsinki. I am hopeful of being backed by one of the prominent political parties. I think I can win if I can get a good campaign manager,&#8217; Hasan told a visiting IANS correspondent. &#8216;I am trying to raise funds needed to contest the polls, and the response so far has been quite encouraging. I have already started my campaign,&#8217; she added. Incidentally, politics is not the only passion this teenager has. &#8216;I am already a film director. <strong>Last year I directed a Finnish film<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/061101\/43\/68yay.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki, Nov 1 (IANS) Alisha Hasan, 18, is quite unlike other teenagers in Finland, not because she was born in India and is a member of the small Indian community here. She will be one of the youngest candidates contesting Finland&#8217;s parliamentary polls next year. &#8216;I will be contesting polls from Helsinki. I am hopeful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}