{"id":115958,"date":"2017-12-09T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=115958"},"modified":"2017-12-09T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:04:47","slug":"70-polling-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/70-polling-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"70% polling in Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over 70 percent voting was registered in Gujarat at close of polling at 5pm in the first phase, though there were still long queues lined up to vote at most polling stations, Chief Electoral Officer BB Swain said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115960 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/EVMs-being-replaced-in-the-Surat-Gujarat-Election-2017-644x362.jpg\" alt=\"70% polling in Gujarat\" width=\"644\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/EVMs-being-replaced-in-the-Surat-Gujarat-Election-2017-644x362.jpg 644w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/EVMs-being-replaced-in-the-Surat-Gujarat-Election-2017-644x362-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Congress alleges that some EVMs in Porbandar, Surat, Jetpur and Navsari are linked to Bluetooth, while the EC says it has replaced some EVMs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-115959 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/974079_Wallpaper2.jpg\" alt=\"70% polling in Gujarat\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/974079_Wallpaper2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/974079_Wallpaper2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 41% voting was recorded till 2 pm. Action, meanwhile, has shifted to campaigning for Phase 2 and in focus was a tweet mocking the PM by Salman Nizami. PM Narendra Modi says Nizami is an aide of Rahul Gandhi, while the Congress denies knowing him. The latter has accused PM Modi of \u201cgifting\u201d land to industrialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 70 percent voting was registered in Gujarat at close of polling at 5pm in the first phase, though there were still long queues lined up to vote at most polling stations, Chief Electoral Officer BB Swain said on Saturday. The Congress alleges that some EVMs in Porbandar, Surat, Jetpur and Navsari are linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[59648,12806,306,36571,53429,59647,59652,59650,5377,523,24651,59649,305,59651,309,3580],"class_list":["post-115958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bb-swain","tag-chief-electoral-officer","tag-congress","tag-evms","tag-first-phase","tag-gujarat-polling","tag-industrialists","tag-jetpur","tag-navsari","tag-pm-narendra-modi","tag-polling-stations","tag-porbandar","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-salman-nizami","tag-saturday","tag-surat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/women-arrive-to-cast-their-votes-at-ghagra-kachari-l-p-school-polling-booth-in-tezpur-parliamentary-constituency2-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}