{"id":328270,"date":"2020-11-03T04:10:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T04:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328270"},"modified":"2020-11-03T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:05:57","slug":"voting-underway-for-second-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-second-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting held for second phase of Bihar assembly elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-second-phase-of-bihar-assembly-elections\/poll-phase-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328272\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328272 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/poll-phase-2-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/poll-phase-2-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/poll-phase-2-369x420.jpg 369w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/poll-phase-2.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a>Voting for the second phase of Bihar assembly elections was held on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Voting was held at 94 constituencies across 17 districts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to the Election Commission,\u00a053.51% voter turnout was recorded till 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">As many as 1,500 candidates are in the fray. The fate of the Opposition\u2019s chief ministerial candidate, Tejashwi Yadav, his brother Tej Pratap Yadav, among others, was sealed today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The BJP contested on 46 seats while JD(U) contested on 43. The RJD contested on 56 seats whereas, Congress, in 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On October 28, polling for the first phase of Bihar assembly elections was held.<\/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 first phase with a voter turnout of 55.69%.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the second phase of Bihar assembly elections was held on Tuesday.\u00a0 Voting was held at 94 constituencies across 17 districts. According to the Election Commission,\u00a053.51% voter turnout was recorded till 7 p.m. As many as 1,500 candidates are in the fray. The fate of the Opposition\u2019s chief ministerial candidate, Tejashwi Yadav, his brother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":328272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[13610,13663],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328270"}],"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=328270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328299,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328270\/revisions\/328299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}