{"id":284823,"date":"2018-01-18T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284823"},"modified":"2018-01-18T17:21:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:51:13","slug":"assembly-elections-poll-dates-for-meghalaya-tripura-and-nagaland-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/assembly-elections-poll-dates-for-meghalaya-tripura-and-nagaland-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly elections: Poll dates for Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland\u00a0announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/election-commission.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-212130 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/election-commission.jpg\" alt=\"election commission\" width=\"344\" height=\"229\" data-id=\"212130\" \/><\/a>The Election Commission on January 18 announced the schedule for two-phased Assembly elections in Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tripura will go to polls on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_815088419\"><span class=\"aQJ\">February 18<\/span><\/span>\u00a0while Meghalaya and Nagaland will vote on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_815088420\"><span class=\"aQJ\">February 27<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Commission also announced that the results for all three states will be declared on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_815088421\"><span class=\"aQJ\">March 3<\/span><\/span>, said Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The term of the Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura legislative assemblies is ending on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_815088422\"><span class=\"aQJ\">March 6<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_815088423\"><span class=\"aQJ\">March 13 and March 14<\/span><\/span>\u00a0respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Chief Election Commissioner said, &#8220;Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura all have 60 seats each. Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) will be used in all three states, first level checks have been completed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission on January 18 announced the schedule for two-phased Assembly elections in Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland. \u00a0 Tripura will go to polls on\u00a0February 18\u00a0while Meghalaya and Nagaland will vote on\u00a0February 27. The Commission also announced that the results for all three states will be declared on\u00a0March 3, said Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":212130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[288,289,290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}