{"id":312006,"date":"2019-05-06T04:08:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312006"},"modified":"2019-05-06T04:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T04:08:14","slug":"voting-underway-in-51-seats-in-5th-phase-of-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-in-51-seats-in-5th-phase-of-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting underway in 51 seats in 5th phase of Lok Sabha polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; 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=\"444\" height=\"296\" 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: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting began on Monday across 51\u00a0Lok Sabha\u00a0constituencies spread over seven states in the fifth phase of polling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total electorate of over 8.75 crore\u00a0will decide the fate of 674 candidates, including Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Union Minister Smriti Irani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 96,000 polling booths in place for smooth conduct of polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting is being held in 12 seats in Rajasthan, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, seven seats each in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, five in Bihar and four in Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Jammu and Kashmir, voting is taking place in Ladakh constituency, Pulwama and Shopian districts of Anantnag seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the fifth phase, voting will be completed in all seats of Jammu and Kashmir and\u00a0Rajasthan\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The seven-phase\u00a0Lok Sabha\u00a0elections began on April 11\u00a0and would conclude on May 19 and the counting of votes will take place on May 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting began on Monday across 51\u00a0Lok Sabha\u00a0constituencies spread over seven states in the fifth phase of polling. A total electorate of over 8.75 crore\u00a0will decide the fate of 674 candidates, including Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Union Minister Smriti Irani. Over 96,000 polling booths in place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":303962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312006"}],"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=312006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312007,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312006\/revisions\/312007"}],"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=312006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}