{"id":312148,"date":"2019-05-12T04:19:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312148"},"modified":"2019-05-12T04:19:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:19:55","slug":"voting-begins-in-59-seats-in-sixth-phase-of-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-begins-in-59-seats-in-sixth-phase-of-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting begins in 59 seats in sixth 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=\"428\" height=\"285\" 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: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/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 Sunday across 59 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over seven states in the sixth round of seven-phase Lok Sabha elections.<\/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 10.17 crore is eligible to exercise their franchise in this phase, which covers 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, 8 each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, 4 in Jharkhand and 7 seats in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prominent candidates in this phase include three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who faces state BJP chief Manoj Tiwari in Delhi North East, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh against BJP&#8217;s Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal, former cricketer Gautam Gambhir (BJP) against AAP&#8217;s Atishi in East Delhi, Union Ministers Maneka Gandhi from UP&#8217;s Sultanpur, Congress&#8217; General Secretary (West UP) Jyotiraditya Scindia from Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Guna, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda from Sonipat, boxer Vijendra from South Delhi and Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav from Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Azamgarh.<\/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 Lok Sabha elections began on April 11 and 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 Sunday across 59 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over seven states in the sixth round of seven-phase Lok Sabha elections. A total electorate of 10.17 crore is eligible to exercise their franchise in this phase, which covers 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, 8 each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West [&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\/312148"}],"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=312148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312153,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312148\/revisions\/312153"}],"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=312148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}