{"id":315979,"date":"2019-10-24T03:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T03:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315979"},"modified":"2019-10-24T03:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T03:48:50","slug":"counting-of-votes-begins-in-maharashtra-haryana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/counting-of-votes-begins-in-maharashtra-haryana\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting of votes begins in Maharashtra, Haryana"},"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-299614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1.jpg 623w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vvpat-evm-1-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/>Counting of votes began at 8 am for Maharashtra and Haryana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The initial trends will start trickling in before noon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security is tightened in and around many counting centres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An aggregate of many exit polls have predicted a landslide victory for BJP-led NDA in Maharashtra and Haryana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Along with the two states, the Election Commission will also declare outcome of bypolls to 51 seats across 17 states and two Lok Sabha constituencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With exit polls predicting a win for the BJP-led NDA, celebrations\u00a0have already begun\u00a0in Maharashtra. The state BJP has planned sweets, numerous garlands, rallies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting of votes began at 8 am for Maharashtra and Haryana. The initial trends will start trickling in before noon. Security is tightened in and around many counting centres. An aggregate of many exit polls have predicted a landslide victory for BJP-led NDA in Maharashtra and Haryana. Along with the two states, the Election Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2100,2009,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[11912,338,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315979"}],"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=315979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315983,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315979\/revisions\/315983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}