{"id":311722,"date":"2019-04-29T03:59:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311722"},"modified":"2019-04-29T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T03:59:14","slug":"pm-modi-urges-people-to-vote-in-4th-phase-of-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-urges-people-to-vote-in-4th-phase-of-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi urges people to vote in 4th phase of Lok Sabha Polls"},"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-310353 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/modi-10-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/modi-10-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/modi-10.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0on Monday urged the voters to cast their votes and break the voting records of the previous three phases in this fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAnother phase of the General Elections begins today. I hope those voting today do so in large numbers and break the voting records of the previous three phases. A special appeal to young voters to head to the polling booth and exercise their franchise,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting began across 72 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over nine states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 12.79 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The seven-phase Lok Sabha elections began on April 11 and will conclude on May 19. Counting of votes will take place on May 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0on Monday urged the voters to cast their votes and break the voting records of the previous three phases in this fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections. \u201cAnother phase of the General Elections begins today. I hope those voting today do so in large numbers and break the voting records of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[3939,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311722"}],"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=311722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311723,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311722\/revisions\/311723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}