{"id":306715,"date":"2018-12-07T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306715"},"modified":"2018-12-07T05:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T05:56:16","slug":"prime-minister-narendra-modi-urge-voters-in-rajasthan-telangana-to-participate-in-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prime-minister-narendra-modi-urge-voters-in-rajasthan-telangana-to-participate-in-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Narendra Modi urge voters in Rajasthan, Telangana to participate in polls"},"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=\"size-medium wp-image-303297 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/modi-award-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-award-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-award-346x420.jpg 346w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-award.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/>With the polling for assembly elections in Rajasthan and Telangana is underway, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to the people of both the states to participate in the Assembly polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi took to Twitter and urged voters to participate with full enthusiasm and in huge numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Today is the day of polling in Rajasthan. I urge all voters in the state to take part in the biggest festival of democracy with full enthusiasm and cast vote in large numbers,&#8221; Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Today is election day and I request all brothers and sisters in Telangana to come in huge number to cast their valuable votes, especially I request youngsters to use their vote to make democracy more enriching,&#8221; The Prime Minister tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP President Amit Shah also took to his twitter account and tweeted,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI appeal to my sisters and brothers of Telangana to come out and vote in large numbers for a appeasement free and development oriented government. I specially urge my young friends\u00a0to participate in this biggest festival of democracy without fail,\u201d Amit Shah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDevelopment, progress and prosperity are the people&#8217;s right of the land of warriors which is only possible and only with the buzzwords of &#8220;fair-right development&#8221;.\u00a0 I appeal to the people of Rajasthan to vote a greater number to maintain the momentum that the State is moving ahead of development. Shah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling for the 199 seats out of 200 seats in\u00a0Rajasthan\u00a0and 119-member\u00a0Telangana Assembly\u00a0is underway on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power in Rajasthan since 2013, is fighting anti-incumbency to retain power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Votes will be counted on December 11.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the polling for assembly elections in Rajasthan and Telangana is underway, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to the people of both the states to participate in the Assembly polls. Prime Minister Modi took to Twitter and urged voters to participate with full enthusiasm and in huge numbers. &#8220;Today is the day of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":303297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[316,1478,2226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306715"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306718,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306715\/revisions\/306718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}