{"id":122167,"date":"2022-01-16T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T22:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122167"},"modified":"2022-01-16T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T22:44:49","slug":"menike-mage-hithe-is-bjps-theme-song-in-uttar-pradesh-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/16\/menike-mage-hithe-is-bjps-theme-song-in-uttar-pradesh-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Menike Mage Hithe\u2019 is BJP\u2019s theme song in Uttar Pradesh elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>New Delhi, January 16 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan singer Yohani de Silva\u2019s Menike Maga Hithe\u201d which had taken the Indian music scene by storm, is now being used by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to boost the prospects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh State Assembly elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uttar Pradesh, among India\u2019s largest States, will go to the polls on February 10. Polling will end on March 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u092f\u0942\u092a\u0940 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092b\u093f\u0930 \u091a\u0932\u0947\u0902\u0917\u0940, \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940-\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u092b\u093f\u0930 \u0939\u0935\u093e\u090f\u0902, \u0938\u092c \u0917\u093e\u090f\u0902,<br><br>\u0938\u092c\u0915\u0947 \u092e\u0928 \u0915\u0940 \u092f\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u0937\u093e, \u092f\u0939\u093e\u0902 \u0926\u094b-\u0926\u094b \u0939\u0948\u0902 \u0906\u0936\u093e,<br>\u092f\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940-\u092f\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940, \u0909\u092a\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940, \u0938\u0939\u092f\u094b\u0917\u0940,<br>\u0906\u090f\u0917\u0940 \u092b\u093f\u0930 \u0938\u0947 \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l67VLIaLdg\">pic.twitter.com\/l67VLIaLdg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BJP (@BJP4India) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJP4India\/status\/1482626375177871361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/indian-foreign-minister-and-lankan-finance-minister-have-fruitful-online-interaction\/\">Indian Foreign Minister and Lankan Finance Minister have fruitful online interaction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the strongest contender in the Uttar Pradesh elections, the BJP is clearly taking nothing for granted given the economic setback due to the COCID 19 pandemic, fall in production of goods and services and unrest in the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in brilliant moves, the BJP\u2019s poll wizards have harnessed every popular brand to sell their party in the competitive political marketplace. Even young Sri Lankan singing sensation Yohani de Silva\u2019s hit Manike Mage Hithe\u201d has not been overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/manike-mage-hithe-song-hits-100-million-views-on-youtube\/?highlight=Manike\">Manike Mage Hithe song hits 100 million views on YouTube<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song had\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/watch-honestly-manike-playing-in-loop-whole-night-amitabh-bachchan-shares-incredible-sri-lankan-song\/\" target=\"_blank\">grabbed the attention of Superstar Amitabh Bachan\u00a0<\/a>and once it did that, another superstar\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/internet-sensation-yohani-makes-salman-khan-sing-manike-mage-hithe-with-her-on-bigg-boss-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Khan fell for it and even sang it along with Yohani at a public show<\/a>. Yohani went on to become a rage thereafter and has sung the title song of the forthcoming Bollywood film Shiddat\u201d. Click on the link below to hear Yohani sing Shiddat\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yohani  - Shiddat Title Track  (Official Female Version) | Manan Bhardwaj\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4K6RlzLXAtk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, January 16 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan singer Yohani de Silva\u2019s Menike Maga Hithe\u201d which had taken the Indian music scene by storm, is now being used by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to boost the prospects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}