{"id":311212,"date":"2019-04-11T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311212"},"modified":"2019-04-11T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:07:01","slug":"kashmir-polls-held-amid-separatist-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kashmir-polls-held-amid-separatist-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir polls held amid separatist shutdown"},"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-311214 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JK-voting-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/JK-voting-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/JK-voting-513x420.jpg 513w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/JK-voting.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kashmir observed hartal on Thursday in protest against the polling during the first phase of general election and the NIA action against the Hurriyat leaders. The call for hartal was given by the\u00a0 separatists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Business establishments remained closed and transport went off the roads in Srinagar and the major towns<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the shutdown didn&#8217;t affect the polling\u00a0 in Baramulla constituency where upwards of 30 percent people had cast their vote by early afternoon. Around 13,12 lakh voters are\u00a0 deciding the fate of nine candidates in the fray in constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jammu Lok Sabha constituency, on the other hand, recorded 44.65 per cent turnout by 1 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Separatists have appealed to people to boycott\u00a0 Lok Sabha polls.\u00a0 In subsequent phases, separatists have urged people to observe shutdown\u00a0 in areas which are going to polls in the valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shutdown is also being observed in protest against the ban on Udhampur-Baramulla highway which has severely inconvenienced the people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmir observed hartal on Thursday in protest against the polling during the first phase of general election and the NIA action against the Hurriyat leaders. The call for hartal was given by the\u00a0 separatists. Business establishments remained closed and transport went off the roads in Srinagar and the major towns However, the shutdown didn&#8217;t affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,1974,5060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311212"}],"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=311212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311215,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311212\/revisions\/311215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}