{"id":307600,"date":"2018-12-30T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307600"},"modified":"2018-12-30T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T09:38:12","slug":"polling-underway-in-bangladesh-pm-hasina-confident-of-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/polling-underway-in-bangladesh-pm-hasina-confident-of-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling Underway in Bangladesh amid violence, PM Hasina confident of Victory"},"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\/polling-underway-in-bangladesh-pm-hasina-confident-of-victory\/hasina\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307601\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307601 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/hasina-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hasina-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hasina-341x420.jpg 341w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hasina.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a>Bangladesh went to the parliamentary elections on Sunday, with incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina confident of the Awami-league led alliance win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hasina is confident of a third straight term in a face-off against an opposition whose leader is in jail charged with corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling is currently underway at more than 40,000 polling stations in 299 constituencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mobile internet services were blocked and security has been beefed up in the wake of polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to sources, at least five people were killed and more than 30 injured in poll-related violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around 104.2 million people including millions of young new voters are registered to vote in the first fully competitive general election in a decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh went to the parliamentary elections on Sunday, with incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina confident of the Awami-league led alliance win. Hasina is confident of a third straight term in a face-off against an opposition whose leader is in jail charged with corruption. Polling is currently underway at more than 40,000 polling stations in 299 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2267,4878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307600"}],"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=307600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307605,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307600\/revisions\/307605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}