{"id":303839,"date":"2018-10-06T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T11:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303839"},"modified":"2018-10-06T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T11:12:17","slug":"ec-announces-election-dates-of-five-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ec-announces-election-dates-of-five-states\/","title":{"rendered":"EC announces election dates of Five States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302712 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"393\" 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: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday announced dates for elections in five states, including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the media, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) OP Rawat said that Chhattisgarh, affected by Maoist insurgency, will go to elections in two phases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first phase will be held on November 12 that will cover LWE hit districts. The second phase will be held on November 20 while polling in Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram will be held on November 28. Telangana and Rajasthan will go to polls on December 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Results for the elections in all five states will be announced on December 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Detail List of Election dates announced by EC<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chhattisgarh &#8211; Phase 1 on November 12, Phase 2 on November 20<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Madhya Pradesh &#8211; November 28<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mizoram &#8211; November 28<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajasthan &#8211; December 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Telangana &#8211; December 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The counting of votes in all the states will be held simultaneously on December 11.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday announced dates for elections in five states, including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram. Addressing the media, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) OP Rawat said that Chhattisgarh, affected by Maoist insurgency, will go to elections in two phases. The first phase will be held on November 12 that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5446,1706,3214,1043,2315,1478,2226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303839"}],"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=303839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303842,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303839\/revisions\/303842"}],"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=303839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}