{"id":319746,"date":"2020-02-08T03:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319746"},"modified":"2020-02-08T03:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:25:15","slug":"delhi-assembly-election-voting-begins-today-amid-tight-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-assembly-election-voting-begins-today-amid-tight-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Assembly Election: Voting begins today amid tight security"},"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-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 polling for the 70\u00a0assembly constituencies in the National Capital began at 8.00 am on Saturday and will continue till 6.00 pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 1.47 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The authorities have made tight security arrangements across the national capital, keeping an &#8220;extra vigil&#8221; in sensitive areas like Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar and Seelampuri.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi will witness a triangular contest between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The AAP, under the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, is seeking to retain the power in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2015, AAP had swept the elections by a landslide margin of 67 seats, with the BJP winning only 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged voters to be a part of the festival of democracy by coming out to vote in maximum numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cToday is the day of voting for the Delhi assembly elections. I appeal to all voters to participate in this festival of democracy in maximum numbers and create a new voting record,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cUrging the people of Delhi, especially my young friends, to vote in record numbers,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The polling for the 70\u00a0assembly constituencies in the National Capital began at 8.00 am on Saturday and will continue till 6.00 pm.\u00a0 Over 1.47 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise. The authorities have made tight security arrangements across the national capital, keeping an &#8220;extra vigil&#8221; in sensitive areas like Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":303962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[9015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319746"}],"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=319746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319747,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319746\/revisions\/319747"}],"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=319746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}