{"id":210060,"date":"2021-02-26T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=210060"},"modified":"2021-02-26T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T12:52:07","slug":"cec-announces-election-schedule-for-5-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/cec-announces-election-schedule-for-5-states\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC announces election schedule for 5 states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said that nearly 18.68 crore electors will be voting at 2.7 lakh polling stations for 824 seats in 5 state assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cKerala to go to polls on 6th April; counting of votes on 2nd May. Assam assembly elections to be held in 3 phases- 1st phase of polling- 27th March, second phase polling-1st April and third phase of polling-6th April; date of counting 2nd May. Puducherry elections to be held on 6th April and counting on 2nd May,\u201d said the CEC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210061 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ec.jpg\" alt=\"ec\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ec.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ec-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ec-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ec-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The elections for West Bengal Assembly will be held in 8 phases. Last time, it was held in 7 phases. \u201cWest Bengal Phase-I voting on 27th March, Phase-II voting on 1st April, Phase-III voting on April 6, Phase-IV voting on April 10, Phase-V voting on April 17, Phase-VI voting on April 22, Phase-VII voting on April 26, Phase-VIII voting on April 29,\u201d informed the CEC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arrangements will be in place for candidates to file nominations online for five assembly polls and voting to be allowed for extra one hour in wake of COVID-19. The counting of votes for all five assembly elections will be held on May 2. \u201cWebcasting arrangement are in place at polling stations in critical and vulnerable areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adequate CRPF deployment will be ensured for assembly polls; critical, vulnerable areas identified and advance teams have already been deployed,\u201d said Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said that nearly 18.68 crore electors will be voting at 2.7 lakh polling stations for 824 seats in 5 state assembly elections. \u201cKerala to go to polls on 6th April; counting of votes on 2nd May. Assam assembly elections to be held in 3 phases- 1st phase of polling- 27th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[105904,48478,105906,105905],"class_list":["post-210060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-assam-assembly-elections","tag-cec","tag-cec-sunil-arora","tag-puducherry-elections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210060","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}