{"id":306759,"date":"2018-12-08T04:55:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T04:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306759"},"modified":"2018-12-08T04:55:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T04:55:58","slug":"punjab-panchayat-polls-to-be-held-on-december-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-panchayat-polls-to-be-held-on-december-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab: Panchayat polls to be held on December 30"},"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=\"469\" height=\"414\" 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: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting for 13,276 panchayats in\u00a0Punjab\u00a0will be held on December 30 and the votes will be counted on the same day after polling gets over, state Election Commissioner\u00a0Jagpal Singh Sandhu\u00a0announced here 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;\">With the announcement, the &#8216;Model Code of Conduct&#8217; has come into force in the state. It will be in force till the completion of the electoral process, Sandhu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe process of filing the nominations would commence on December 15 and conclude on December 19, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The voting would be held on December 30 from 8 am till 4 pm and the votes will be counted on the same day, Sandhu added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sandhu said 13,276 Sarpanchs and 83,831 Panches would be elected for the 13,276 panchayats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere were 1,27,87,395 registered voters in the state,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for 13,276 panchayats in\u00a0Punjab\u00a0will be held on December 30 and the votes will be counted on the same day after polling gets over, state Election Commissioner\u00a0Jagpal Singh Sandhu\u00a0announced here on Friday. With the announcement, the &#8216;Model Code of Conduct&#8217; has come into force in the state. It will be in force till the completion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[10163,4667,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306759"}],"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=306759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306760,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306759\/revisions\/306760"}],"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=306759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}