{"id":172,"date":"2018-12-31T04:41:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T04:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2018-12-31T04:41:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T04:41:31","slug":"punjab-panchayat-polls-in-punjab-underway-8000-candidates-are-in-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/punjab-panchayat-polls-in-punjab-underway-8000-candidates-are-in-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab panchayat polls in Punjab underway, 8000 candidates are in battle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chandigarh:<\/strong> Amid tight security cover, the polling to elect sarpanchs and panchs for 13,276 villages in Punjab is underway. The voting has begun from 8 am to 4 pm on Sunday and counting of votes will take place after the conclusion of polling.<\/p>\n<p>A state election official said that all necessary arrangements have been made to hold smooth, transparent and peaceful polling.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 8,000 candidates are in the fray for the post of sarpanchs and panchs. The official added that around 4,363 sarpanchs and 46,754 panchs are already elected unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>More than 13,276 sarpanchs and 83,831 panchs will be elected for 13,276 villages, he said.<br \/>\nNearly 1.27 crore voters are taking part in the polling.<\/p>\n<p>As per the counting The State Election Commission has set up 17,268 polling booths and 86,340 personnel are deputed on duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: Amid tight security cover, the polling to elect sarpanchs and panchs for 13,276 villages in Punjab is underway. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[78,77,76],"result":[],"election_2018":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","tag-punjab","tag-state-election","tag-the-state-election-commission"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"result","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/result?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"election_2018","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election_2018?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}