{"id":304458,"date":"2018-10-20T05:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T05:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304458"},"modified":"2018-10-20T05:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T05:17:17","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-counting-for-municipal-polls-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-counting-for-municipal-polls-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Counting for municipal polls begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-dates-of-panchayat-polls-announced-to-be-held-in-9-phases\/polling\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302712\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302712 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"496\" 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: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a>The counting of recently concluded municipal polls of Jammu and Kashmir for 52 civic bodies began on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the poll officials the counting started in the morning and all the results will be declared later in the day.<\/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 is being held at the respective district headquarters and all arrangements are in place, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For Srinagar the counting is being held at the\u00a0Sher-e-Kashmir\u00a0International Convention Centre (SKICC) and for Jammu\u00a0municipal corporation, it is being held at the\u00a0Government Polytechnic College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The polling was held amid tight security arrangements in four phases which started on October 8 and ended on October 16.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Municipal elections took place in the state after a gap of 13 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the two key parties in the state, the National Conference (NC) and the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), had abstained from the elections over the contentious issue of Article 35A.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The counting of recently concluded municipal polls of Jammu and Kashmir for 52 civic bodies began on Saturday. According to the poll officials the counting started in the morning and all the results will be declared later in the day. The counting is being held at the respective district headquarters and all arrangements are in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,5713,5712,472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304458"}],"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=304458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304459,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304458\/revisions\/304459"}],"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=304458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}