{"id":315816,"date":"2019-10-21T03:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T03:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315816"},"modified":"2019-10-21T03:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T03:52:29","slug":"assembly-elections-2019-voting-begins-in-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/assembly-elections-2019-voting-begins-in-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Elections 2019: Voting begins in Maharashtra"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-315817 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/polls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/polls.jpg 549w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/polls-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/>Voting in Maharashtra began on Monday morning to elect the next government in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling started at 7 am this morning and will be on till 6 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly, the BJP and Shiv Sena are contesting in an alliance, while on the opposite side the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are contesting together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister Nitin Gadkari cast his vote along with his wife in Nagpur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gadkari in a tweet appealed to all the voters of Maharashtra and Haryana to vote for the progress of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that he is confident that the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance will win around 225 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA vote is the most effective way to exercise our democratic rights &amp; contribute to India\u2019s future. I urge everyone in Maharashtra and Haryana to vote for development, good governance and security for every Indian,\u201d Goyal said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi also urge voters to turnout in record numbers and enrich the festival of democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cElections are taking place for Haryana and Maharashtra assemblies. There are also by-polls taking place in various parts of India. I urge voters in these states and seats to turnout in record numbers and enrich the festival of democracy. I hope youngsters vote in large numbers,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting in Maharashtra began on Monday morning to elect the next government in the state. Polling started at 7 am this morning and will be on till 6 pm. For the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly, the BJP and Shiv Sena are contesting in an alliance, while on the opposite side the Congress and the Nationalist Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[11841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315816"}],"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=315816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315819,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315816\/revisions\/315819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}