{"id":311578,"date":"2019-04-23T05:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311578"},"modified":"2019-04-23T05:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:15:49","slug":"voting-begins-for-third-phase-of-lok-sabha-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-begins-for-third-phase-of-lok-sabha-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting begins for third phase of Lok Sabha Elections"},"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-303962 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting began on Tuesday for the third and largest phase of Lok Sabha elections in 117 seats across 13 states and two Union Territories. Voting is being held in all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, with Congress president Rahul Gandhi, BJP president Amit Shah and numerous Union ministers among prominent candidates in the fray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides 26 constituencies in Gujarat and 20 seats in Kerala, voting is being held for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, seven in Chhattisgarh, 14 each in Maharashtra and Karnataka, six in Odisha, five each in Bihar and West Bengal, four in Assam, two in Goa, one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Tripura.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting began on Tuesday for the third and largest phase of Lok Sabha elections in 117 seats across 13 states and two Union Territories. Voting is being held in all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, with Congress president Rahul Gandhi, BJP president Amit Shah and numerous Union ministers among prominent candidates in the fray. Besides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":303962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311578"}],"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=311578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311579,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311578\/revisions\/311579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}