{"id":315157,"date":"2019-09-21T08:03:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315157"},"modified":"2019-09-21T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:03:22","slug":"assembly-elections-2019-maharashtra-haryana-to-vote-on-october-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/assembly-elections-2019-maharashtra-haryana-to-vote-on-october-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly elections 2019: Maharashtra, Haryana to vote on October 21"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-315158 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sunil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Sunil.jpg 648w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Sunil-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/Sunil-540x420.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana will be held on October 21 while counting in both states will be on October 24, Chief Elections Commissioner Sunil Arora said on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The last date of nominations is October 4, the top poll body officer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While the term of 288-member Maharashtra assembly ends on November 9, that of the 90-member Haryana assembly expires on November 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra has an electorate of 8.94 crore registered voters, while Haryana has an electorate of 1.82 crore eligible to cast their votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Election schedule for Maharashtra, Haryana<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Issue of Notification: September 27<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last Date of Nominations: October 4<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Scrutiny of Nominations: October 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last date for withdrawal of candidature: October 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Date of Polling: October 21<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Counting: October 24<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana will be held on October 21 while counting in both states will be on October 24, Chief Elections Commissioner Sunil Arora said on Saturday. The last date of nominations is October 4, the top poll body officer said. While the term of 288-member Maharashtra assembly ends on November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2100,36,2009,2014,2026],"tags":[2758,338,1467,9906],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315157"}],"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=315157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315164,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315157\/revisions\/315164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}