{"id":318076,"date":"2019-12-20T03:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318076"},"modified":"2019-12-20T03:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T03:02:21","slug":"jharkhand-assembly-polls-voting-begins-for-fifth-and-final-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jharkhand-assembly-polls-voting-begins-for-fifth-and-final-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand Assembly polls: Voting begins for fifth and final phase"},"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-302712 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/polling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling.jpg 569w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/polling-475x420.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/>Voting for the fifth and final phase of Jharkhand assembly elections in 16 constituencies began at 7 am on Friday.<\/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 237 candidates including 29 women will be decided in this final phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 40 lakh people will cast their votes today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling will end at 3 pm in five constituencies of Borio, Barhait, Litipara, Maheshpur and Sikaripara and voting will continue till 5 pm in the rest of the constituencies.<\/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 today urged voters to turn out in record numbers to vote in the final phase of the elections.\u00a0<\/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 which is spread over 5 phases began on November 30. The counting of votes is scheduled on December 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the fifth and final phase of Jharkhand assembly elections in 16 constituencies began at 7 am on Friday. The fate of 237 candidates including 29 women will be decided in this final phase. Over 40 lakh people will cast their votes today. Polling will end at 3 pm in five constituencies of Borio, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302712,"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\/318076"}],"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=318076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318077,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318076\/revisions\/318077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}