{"id":407,"date":"2019-01-25T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/?p=407"},"modified":"2019-01-29T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T12:54:03","slug":"second-phase-of-telangana-panchayat-elections-voting-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/second-phase-of-telangana-panchayat-elections-voting-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Phase of Telangana panchayat elections: Voting begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hyderabad:<\/strong> Second phase of Telangana Panchayat elections began at 7 am on Friday. The polling will continue till 1 pm and the counting will begin from 2 pm.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time ever polls for panchayats after the formation of the state in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A massive layer of security which includes nearly 50,000 security personnel has been deployed for peaceful polling, informed the state election commission (SEC) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 10,668 candidates are contesting for sarpanch posts in 3,342 panchayats while 63,480 candidates are in the fray for 26,191 wards, official communication from the SEC said.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the Panchayat polls was held on January 21.<\/p>\n<p>The third phase would be held on January 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: Second phase of Telangana Panchayat elections began at 7 am on Friday. The polling will continue till 1 pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,216],"tags":[219,217,218],"result":[],"election_2018":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telangana","category-telangana-panchayat-elections","tag-telangana-elections","tag-telangana-panchayat-elections","tag-telangana-panchayat-polls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"result","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/result?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"election_2018","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election_2018?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}