{"id":317290,"date":"2019-11-30T04:28:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T04:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317290"},"modified":"2019-11-30T04:51:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T04:51:14","slug":"jharkhand-assembly-election-voting-for-first-phase-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jharkhand-assembly-election-voting-for-first-phase-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand Assembly election: Voting for first phase begins today"},"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-303962 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/voting_election_poll.jpg 750w, 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\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>The first of the five-phase polling for the Jharkhand Assembly election began today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thirteen constituencies in six districts of Jharkhand will go to polls in the first phase of the Jharkhand Assembly election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The voting began at 7 am and conclude at 3 pm, Election Commission officials said.<\/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 of 37,83,055 electorate, including 18,01,356 women and five third gender voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the first phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fate of 189 candidates will be decided in the first 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;\">Prominent candidates in the fray are Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee and Jharkhand Health Minister Ramchandra Chandravanshi and Jharkhand PCC president Rameshwar Oraon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Jharkhand Assembly polls, which is spread over 5 phases, will conclude on December 20 and the counting of votes is scheduled on December 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of the five-phase polling for the Jharkhand Assembly election began today. Thirteen constituencies in six districts of Jharkhand will go to polls in the first phase of the Jharkhand Assembly election. The voting began at 7 am and conclude at 3 pm, Election Commission officials said. A total of 37,83,055 electorate, including 18,01,356 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":303962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2090,2014],"tags":[12103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317290"}],"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=317290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317291,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317290\/revisions\/317291"}],"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=317290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}