{"id":319751,"date":"2020-02-08T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319751"},"modified":"2020-02-08T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T06:25:00","slug":"delhi-assembly-elections-arvind-kejriwal-casts-vote-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-assembly-elections-arvind-kejriwal-casts-vote-with-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Assembly elections: Arvind Kejriwal casts vote with family"},"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-319752 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/arvind.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/arvind.jpg 890w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/arvind-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/arvind-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/arvind-696x421.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/arvind-695x420.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/>Voting for the 70 Assembly constituencies in Delhi is under way with people queuing up outside polling booths since early Saturday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 1.47 crore people 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;\">Kejriwal, who is contesting the polls from the New Delhi seat, was accompanied by his family. After voting he took to his twitter account and tweeted, \u201cVoted along with my family, including my first-time voter son. Urge all young voters to come out to vote. Your participation strengthens democracy.\u201d<\/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 the National Capital.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the 70 Assembly constituencies in Delhi is under way with people queuing up outside polling booths since early Saturday morning. Over 1.47 crore people are eligible to exercise their franchise. Kejriwal, who is contesting the polls from the New Delhi seat, was accompanied by his family. After voting he took to his twitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[306,12401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319751"}],"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=319751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319753,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319751\/revisions\/319753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}