{"id":311501,"date":"2019-04-19T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T08:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311501"},"modified":"2019-04-19T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T08:36:08","slug":"after-moderate-srinagar-polling-stage-set-for-polling-in-troubled-south-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/after-moderate-srinagar-polling-stage-set-for-polling-in-troubled-south-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"After moderate Srinagar polling, stage set for polling in troubled South Kashmir"},"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-300677 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/abduct-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-696x538.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct-543x420.jpg 543w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/abduct.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Life returned to normal in Kashmir valley on Friday a day after a complete shutdown was observed against the second phase of polling for the Lok Sabha election in the state on the call of the separatist groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was back to buzz on the streets. Shops and business establishments re-opened and the transport plied normally. Train services also resumed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Srinagar Parliament constituency witnessed a moderate polling with just 14.1 percent of the people casting their ballot. Around 35 percent people had cast their vote in Baramulla constituency which held polling on April 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, polling in Jammu constituencies has gone on normally with upwards of 70 percent people voting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With polling held for two of the three constituencies of Kashmir Valley, the stage is\u00a0 set for the polling in troubled South Kashmir which is going to polls on April 23. In 2017, the state government was unable to hold the by-poll for the parliamentary seat due to the deteriorating security environment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life returned to normal in Kashmir valley on Friday a day after a complete shutdown was observed against the second phase of polling for the Lok Sabha election in the state on the call of the separatist groups. It was back to buzz on the streets. Shops and business establishments re-opened and the transport plied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[11219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311501"}],"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=311501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311503,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311501\/revisions\/311503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}