{"id":1614,"date":"2018-11-12T13:38:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:51:16","slug":"chhattisgarh-elections-first-phase-sees-70-voter-turnout-amid-sporadic-maoist-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/12\/chhattisgarh-elections-first-phase-sees-70-voter-turnout-amid-sporadic-maoist-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Chhattisgarh elections: First phase sees 70% voter turnout amid sporadic Maoist violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defying threats by Maoists, 70 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote on Monday in 18 constituencies in the first phase of Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh amid violence and allegations of EVM rigging.\u00a0\u00a0Minutes before polling began, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated in Dantewada district by Naxals, who had called for a boycott of the polls. Security personnel also recovered IEDs near a polling station in Bijapur and in Sukma district.\u00a0In the run-up to the elections, the state has registered an increase in the number of Maoist attacks. The rebels have mounted three attacks in the past two weeks, leading to the deaths of eight security personnel and five civilians.\u00a0Amid the polling for the first phase, Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0kickstarted the campaign for the second phase by addressing an election rally in Bilaspur. Attacking the Congress for its dynastic politics, Modi said that the grand old party\u2019s \u201cpolitics begins and ends with one family\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1616\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1616 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chhattisgarh-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chhattisgarh-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chhattisgarh-1.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chhattisgarh elections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defying threats by Maoists, 70 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote on Monday in 18 constituencies in the first phase of Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh amid violence and allegations of EVM rigging.\u00a0\u00a0Minutes before polling began, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated in Dantewada district by Naxals, who had called for a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1729],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-chhattisgarh-elections"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}