{"id":89674,"date":"2017-06-07T19:46:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=89674"},"modified":"2017-06-07T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:17:11","slug":"presidential-poll-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/presidential-poll-july-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential poll on July 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The presidential poll will be held on July 17, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday. The term of President Pranab Mukherjee ends on July 24.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-89675 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/president-knJD-621x414@LiveMint.jpg\" alt=\" Presidential poll on July 17\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The last date for filing of nomination is June 28 and the counting will take place in Delhi on July 0,&#8221; Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A notification would be issued on June 14, he said.There will be no NOTA (none of the above) option in the ballot paper in the next Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-89676 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nasim-Zaidi-1.jpg\" alt=\" Presidential poll on July 17\" width=\"552\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was disclosed to the Assistant Returning Officers at a workshop organised by the Election Commission in Delhi recently. Earlier, a Supreme Court directive in 2013 had made NOTA a mandatory option for all polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EC is responsible for conducting elections for Members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Assembly and Legislative Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential poll will be held on July 17, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday. The term of President Pranab Mukherjee ends on July 24. &#8220;The last date for filing of nomination is June 28 and the counting will take place in Delhi on July 0,&#8221; Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi told reporters. A notification [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[45712,488,4310,45711,45713,4175,13840,45710],"class_list":["post-89674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-chief-election-commissioner-nasim-zaidi","tag-delhi","tag-election-commission","tag-nomination","tag-nota","tag-pranab-mukherjee","tag-presidential","tag-presidential-poll-on-july-17"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89674","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=89674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}