{"id":311159,"date":"2019-04-09T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311159"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:09:27","slug":"ec-notifies-schedule-of-voting-hours-for-first-phase-of-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ec-notifies-schedule-of-voting-hours-for-first-phase-of-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"EC notifies schedule of voting hours for first phase of Lok Sabha 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=\" wp-image-301080 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/eci-tehelka-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/eci-tehelka-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/eci-tehelka.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Election Commission of India has notified the schedule of voting hours for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling will be held in 91 out of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over 20 states and UTs in the first phase on April 11.<\/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 time in\u00a0most of the Parliamentary Constituencies going to polls in the first phase is between 7am-6pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, in left-wing extremism affected areas and North East States the timings vary from 7am-5pm\/ 7am-4pm\/ 7am-3pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Commission of India has notified the schedule of voting hours for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019. Polling will be held in 91 out of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over 20 states and UTs in the first phase on April 11. The voting time in\u00a0most of the Parliamentary Constituencies going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311159"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311160,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311159\/revisions\/311160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}