{"id":328031,"date":"2020-10-28T05:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328031"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:32:58","slug":"polling-for-first-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/polling-for-first-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling for first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/polling-for-first-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections-underway\/bihar-election\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328032\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328032 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/bihar-election-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-election-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-election-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-election-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-election-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-election-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-election-696x519.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-election-564x420.jpg 564w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/bihar-election.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a>Polling for the first phase of Bihar assembly elections was held on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Voting was held at 71 constituencies across 16 districts in the first phase of the Bihar assembly election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">53.54% voter turnout was recorded till 6 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">As many as 1,066 candidates are in the fray including 42 from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), 35 from Janata Dal (United), 29 from BJP, 21 from Congress and 8 from Left parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The campaigning for the first phase of the Bihar Assembly Elections ended on October 26 evening.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling for the first phase of Bihar assembly elections was held on Wednesday. Voting was held at 71 constituencies across 16 districts in the first phase of the Bihar assembly election. 53.54% voter turnout was recorded till 6 pm. As many as 1,066 candidates are in the fray including 42 from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":328032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[13610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328031"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328063,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328031\/revisions\/328063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}