{"id":329213,"date":"2020-12-04T05:58:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329213"},"modified":"2020-12-04T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T19:14:52","slug":"voting-underway-for-third-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/voting-underway-for-third-phase-of-ddc-elections-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting concludes for third 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 for the third phase of District Development Council (DDC)\u00a0elections in Jammu and Kashmir was held on Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The third phase of DDC polls recorded overall voter percentage of 50.53%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The polling for 33 DDC seats &#8212; 16 in Kashmir and 17 in Jammu division &#8212; began at 7 am.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are a total of 305 candidates in the electoral fray including 166 from Kashmir and 139 from Jammu division for DDC elections in phase 3, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling was also held for vacant panch and sarpanch constituencies as well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling for the third phase of District Development Council (DDC)\u00a0elections in Jammu and Kashmir was held on Friday.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The third phase of DDC polls recorded overall voter percentage of 50.53%. The polling for 33 DDC seats &#8212; 16 in Kashmir and 17 in Jammu division &#8212; began at 7 am. There are a total [&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":[13732,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329213"}],"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=329213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329237,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329213\/revisions\/329237"}],"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=329213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}