{"id":303022,"date":"2018-09-20T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303022"},"modified":"2018-09-20T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:09:51","slug":"punjab-zila-parishad-panchayat-samiti-elections-election-commission-orders-repoll-in-28-booths-across-7-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-zila-parishad-panchayat-samiti-elections-election-commission-orders-repoll-in-28-booths-across-7-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Zila Parishad &#038; Panchayat Samiti elections: Election Commission orders repoll in 28 booths across 7 districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302712 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling-475x420.jpg 475w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Election Commission on Thursday ordered re-polling in 28 booths across seven districts for Punjab&#8217;s Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections. The rural polls were held on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The re-polling is scheduled to held on Friday, September 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The counting of votes will take place on Saturday, September 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Polling for zila parishads and panchayat samitis 2018 took place in Punjab on Wednesday amid clashes between Congress and SAD workers and allegations of poll rigging by opposition parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal alleged a large number of Congress workers, brandishing swords, were involved in &#8220;booth capturing&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In Punjab, nearly 354 Zila Parishad members and 2,900 Panchayat Samitis members will be elected by 1,27,87,395 registered voters \u2013 including 60,99,053 woman and 97 third gender.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Election Commission on Thursday ordered re-polling in 28 booths across seven districts for Punjab&#8217;s Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections. The rural polls were held on Wednesday. The re-polling is scheduled to held on Friday, September 21. The counting of votes will take place on Saturday, September 22. Polling for zila parishads and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303022"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303024,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303022\/revisions\/303024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}