{"id":329137,"date":"2020-12-01T03:43:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329137"},"modified":"2020-12-01T03:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T03:43:17","slug":"voting-underway-for-second-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-second-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting underway for second phase of DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir"},"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-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\" \/>Polling began on Tuesday morning for the second phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir amid tight security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As many as 321 candidates are in the fray in the second phase of the DDC elections and voting is taking place at 2,142 polling booths. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The voting began at 7.00 am.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Around 7.90 lakh voters are eligible to vote in this phase of elections. Out of the 280 constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, 43 are going to polls in the Union Territory in the second phase, 25 in Kashmir and 18 in Jammu division.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Elections in 83 sarpanch constituencies and bypolls in 331 panch constituencies are also being held along with today\u2019s DDC polls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling began on Tuesday morning for the second phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir amid tight security. As many as 321 candidates are in the fray in the second phase of the DDC elections and voting is taking place at 2,142 polling booths. \u00a0 The voting began at 7.00 am.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[13705,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329137"}],"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=329137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329138,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329137\/revisions\/329138"}],"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=329137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}