{"id":1014765,"date":"2026-06-16T08:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014765"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:53:36","slug":"digital-platform-to-help-create-next-gen-leaders-in-punjab-before-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/digital-platform-to-help-create-next-gen-leaders-in-punjab-before-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital platform to help create next-gen leaders in Punjab before polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: With the 2027 Punjab Assembly polls approaching, a new not-for-profit platform, \u2018Opinion of Punjab\u2019, has been launched to identify, support and promote \u201cnext-generation political leaders\u201d across the state. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative aims to nurture leadership from villages to the state and national levels by helping ordinary citizens enter mainstream politics through training, local agenda work, visibility and technology-backed organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: With the 2027 Punjab Assembly polls approaching, a new not-for-profit platform, \u2018Opinion of Punjab\u2019, has been launched to identify, support and promote \u201cnext-generation political leaders\u201d across the state. The initiative aims to nurture leadership from villages to the state and national levels by helping ordinary citizens enter mainstream politics through training, local agenda work, visibility and technology-backed organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014791,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014765\/revisions\/1014791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}