{"id":317554,"date":"2019-12-07T04:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T04:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317554"},"modified":"2019-12-07T04:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T04:35:28","slug":"jharkhand-assembly-polls-second-phase-of-voting-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jharkhand-assembly-polls-second-phase-of-voting-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand Assembly polls: Second phase of voting 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\" \/>Voting began on Saturday morning for the second phase on 20 constituencies in Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The polling commenced at 7 am and will end at 3 pm. Whereas for the two Assembly seats, Jamshedpur (East) and Jamshedpur (West), it will conclude at 5 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Among\u00a0the key contestants are\u00a0Chief Minister Raghubar Das\u00a0who is contesting against his former cabinet colleague and independent candidate Saryu Rai and Congress spokesperson Gaurabh Vallabh in Jamshedpur East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Jharkhand, the BJP is seeking a second term under the leadership of Chief Minister Raghubar Das.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP is contesting in all the 20 seats in the second phase while the opposition alliance of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Congress is contesting in 14 and six seats respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the police sources, several security forces have been deployed in the second phase which is taking place in Maoist affected areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet urged voters to come out in large numbers to exercise their franchise.<\/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>Voting began on Saturday morning for the second phase on 20 constituencies in Jharkhand. The polling commenced at 7 am and will end at 3 pm. Whereas for the two Assembly seats, Jamshedpur (East) and Jamshedpur (West), it will conclude at 5 pm. Among\u00a0the key contestants are\u00a0Chief Minister Raghubar Das\u00a0who is contesting against his former [&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":[12151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317554"}],"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=317554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317556,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317554\/revisions\/317556"}],"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=317554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}