{"id":311720,"date":"2019-04-29T03:58:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T03:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311720"},"modified":"2019-04-29T03:58:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T03:58:54","slug":"voting-begins-for-72-lok-sabha-seats-in-9-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-begins-for-72-lok-sabha-seats-in-9-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting begins for 72 Lok Sabha seats in 9 states"},"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=\"464\" height=\"309\" 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: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling began on Monday for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha election in 72 parliamentary constituencies spread across nine states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting is underway in 13 each in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, 17 seats in Maharashtra, eight in West Bengal, five in Bihar, six each in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, three in Jharkhand and a part of the Anantnag constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the first three phases, voting was held in 302 Lok Sabha constituencies and 168 more seats will go to polls in the last three phases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fate of 961 candidates will be decided in the fourth phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting is being conducted in seven phases between April 11-May 19. Results will be declared on May 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling began on Monday for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha election in 72 parliamentary constituencies spread across nine states. Voting is underway in 13 each in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, 17 seats in Maharashtra, eight in West Bengal, five in Bihar, six each in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, three in Jharkhand and a part [&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\/311720"}],"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=311720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311727,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311720\/revisions\/311727"}],"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=311720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}