{"id":306709,"date":"2018-12-07T05:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T05:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306709"},"modified":"2018-12-07T05:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T05:08:52","slug":"polling-begins-in-rajasthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/polling-begins-in-rajasthan\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling begins in Rajasthan"},"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=\"507\" height=\"338\" 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: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling for 199 seats began on Friday in\u00a0Rajasthan\u00a0amid tight security to elect a new Assembly in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As many as 2,274 candidates are in the fray for 199 out of the 200 assembly constituencies in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the election officials, polling will take place from 8 am to 5 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Rajasthan assembly has 200 seats, but election in Alwar district&#8217;s Ramgarh constituency has been postponed due to the death of Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Laxman Singh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Tonk, Sachin Pilot and Rajasthan Transport Minister and BJP candidate Yoonus Khan are face to face. Ashok Gehlot is fighting for the Sardarpura seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP is contesting on all seats while the\u00a0Congress\u00a0has left five seats for its allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Mayawati-led\u00a0Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)\u00a0has fielded 190, Communist Party of India\u00a016 and the\u00a0Communist Party of India-Marxist\u00a028 candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vasundhara Raje formed the Rajasthan government with a massive majority in the 2013 assembly elections, in which the BJP had won 163 seats and the Congress, 21.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling for 199 seats began on Friday in\u00a0Rajasthan\u00a0amid tight security to elect a new Assembly in the state. As many as 2,274 candidates are in the fray for 199 out of the 200 assembly constituencies in the state. As per the election officials, polling will take place from 8 am to 5 pm. The Rajasthan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[10147,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306709"}],"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=306709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306710,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306709\/revisions\/306710"}],"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=306709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}