{"id":338191,"date":"2022-06-29T05:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338191"},"modified":"2022-06-29T05:31:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T11:01:33","slug":"election-for-vice-president-on-aug-6-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/election-for-vice-president-on-aug-6-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Election for Vice President on Aug 6: EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election for the post of vice president will be held on August 6, the Election Commission said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The notification for the election to decide the successor of M Venkaiah Naidu will be issued on July 5 and the last date for filing of nomination papers will be July 19.<\/p>\n<p>The scrutiny of nomination papers will be done on July 20 and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is July 22.<\/p>\n<p>The election will be held on August 6 and the votes counted on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, including nominated members, form the electoral college for the vice presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Naidu&#8217;s term as vice president ends on August 10.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the vice presidential election was finalised at a meeting of Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election for the post of vice president will be held on August 6, the Election Commission said on Wednesday. The notification for the election to decide the successor of M Venkaiah Naidu will be issued on July 5 and the last date for filing of nomination papers will be July 19. The scrutiny of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338191"}],"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=338191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338193,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338191\/revisions\/338193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}