{"id":427,"date":"2019-01-28T05:46:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T05:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/?p=427"},"modified":"2019-01-29T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T12:42:11","slug":"jind-by-election-is-taking-place-today-in-haryanas-jind-a-test-for-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/jind-by-election-is-taking-place-today-in-haryanas-jind-a-test-for-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Jind-By-Election Is Taking Place Today In Haryana&#8217;s Jind: A Test For BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI:<\/strong> A crucial assembly by-election is taking place today in Haryana&#8217;s Jind that is seeing a multi-cornered fight between the ruling BJP, the Congress, Om Prakash Chautala&#8217;s INLD and others.<\/p>\n<p>21 candidates &#8211; including senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala &#8211; are contesting in the by-elections in Jind, 130 km from Delhi. The seat has 1.75 lakh voters.<\/p>\n<p>Tight security arrangements have been put in place for the voting. Over 3,000 Haryana Police personnel and paramilitary forces have been stationed in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>The bypoll was necessitated following the death of INLD (Indian National Lok Dal) legislator Hari Chand Midha last year.<\/p>\n<p>A direct fight between the BJP and the opposition INLD initially, the bypoll turned into a high-stake contest after the Congress fielded its senior leader Randeep Surjewala, a Jat leader. Mr Surjewala is also the sitting legislator from the neighbouring district of Kaithal. Jannayak Janta Party, a breakaway outfit of the Chautala family-led INLD, nominated Digvijay Singh Chautala.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP has fielded the son of Hari Chand Midha, Krishan Middha, while the INLD has nominated a local Jat leader who is also backed by a faction of the prominent Kandela Khap (a caste council).<\/p>\n<p>The votes will be counted on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A crucial assembly by-election is taking place today in Haryana&#8217;s Jind that is seeing a multi-cornered fight between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,228,229],"tags":[233,235,231,234,230,232],"result":[],"election_2018":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-haryana-election","category-jind-by-election","tag-hari-chand-midha","tag-inld","tag-jind-by-election","tag-krishan-middha","tag-om-prakash-chautalas-inld","tag-senior-leader-randeep-surjewala"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"result","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/result?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"election_2018","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election_2018?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}