{"id":329162,"date":"2020-12-01T14:59:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329162"},"modified":"2020-12-01T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:59:42","slug":"polling-concludes-for-second-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/polling-concludes-for-second-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling concludes 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-329163 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/poll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/poll.jpg 644w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/poll-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/poll-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/poll-598x420.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/>Polling for the second phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections has concluded on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting took place in 43 DDC constituencies-25 in Kashmir valley 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;\">Bypolls to 83 Sarpanch seats and 331 panch seats were also held along with DDC polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first phase of DDC election in Jammu and Kashmir saw 52% voter turnout on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The elections are seen as a triangular contest between the People\u2019s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) \u2013 an amalgam of several mainstream political parties, including the National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s special status which was revoked by the Centre in August last year \u2013 the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Apni Party floated by former finance minister Altaf Bukhari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Notably, the Valley witnessed its first elections since the Centre scrapped Article 370 and bifurcated it into two Union Territories (UTs).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling for the second phase of District Development Council (DDC) elections has concluded on Tuesday. Voting took place in 43 DDC constituencies-25 in Kashmir valley and 18 in Jammu division. Bypolls to 83 Sarpanch seats and 331 panch seats were also held along with DDC polls. The first phase of DDC election in Jammu and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[13732,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329162"}],"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=329162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329164,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329162\/revisions\/329164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}