{"id":305422,"date":"2018-11-12T04:26:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T04:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305422"},"modified":"2018-11-12T04:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T04:26:29","slug":"chhattisgarh-polling-for-the-first-phase-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chhattisgarh-polling-for-the-first-phase-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh: Polling for the first phase begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303962 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting for 18 seats spread across eight Maoist-hit districts began on Monday amid tight security. These districts include 12 constituencies in Bastar division and six in Rajnandagoan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the\u00a018 seats,\u00a0eight are held by the Congress and the rest by the BJP. The last phase of the campaign had witnessed bitter political sparring between BJP and Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naxal outfits have given calls for a boycott of the election and have executed many attacks in previous days. Both the BJP and Congress have been intensely campaigning in the state with top leadership from both parties, including Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0and Rahul Gandhi, addressing a series of rallies to woo the voters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In their manifestos, both BJP and Congress have made promises for welfare of the farmers and the youth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged Chhatisgarh residents to exercise their democratic rights and cast their votes with full enthusiasm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe first phase of voting in Chhattisgarh is today. I urge all voters to take part in the mahaparav of democracy with full enthusiasm and to vote in huge numbers,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The election in the second phase will be held on November 20 and the counting of votes will take place on December 11.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for 18 seats spread across eight Maoist-hit districts began on Monday amid tight security. These districts include 12 constituencies in Bastar division and six in Rajnandagoan.\u00a0 Of the\u00a018 seats,\u00a0eight are held by the Congress and the rest by the BJP. The last phase of the campaign had witnessed bitter political sparring between BJP and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3642,2089,2014],"tags":[8892,453,8839,236,9634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305422"}],"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=305422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305424,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305422\/revisions\/305424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}