{"id":13714,"date":"2014-04-07T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/india-begins-general-election\/"},"modified":"2014-04-07T06:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T06:34:47","slug":"india-begins-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/india-begins-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"India Begins General Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5152 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mnj.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Indians are voting in the first phase of a general election which pits the governing Congress party against the Hindu nationalist BJP opposition.}}<\/p>\n<p>The nine-phase vote got under way in the north-eastern states of Assam and Tripura and will conclude on 12 May. Votes will be counted on 16 May.<\/p>\n<p>More than 814 million Indians are eligible to vote in a poll dominated by corruption and high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>An anti-corruption party the AAP offers another challenge to the main parties.<\/p>\n<p>The Aam Aadmi (Common Man&#8217;s) Party) secured a spectacular result in local polls in Delhi last autumn and is fielding candidates in all of parliament&#8217;s 543 elected seats.<\/p>\n<p>Several smaller regional parties are also in the fray and if no single party wins a clear majority, they could play a crucial role in government formation.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s marathon vote is being staggered over more than a month for security and logistical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of voting, polling is taking place in six constituencies in two states in the north-east &#8211; five in Assam and one in Tripura.<\/p>\n<p>Voters began queuing up outside the polling centres even before voting began in the morning, the BBC&#8217;s Sanjoy Majumder in Assam says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Indians are voting in the first phase of a general election which pits the governing Congress party against the Hindu nationalist BJP opposition.}} The nine-phase vote got under way in the north-eastern states of Assam and Tripura and will conclude on 12 May. Votes will be counted on 16 May. More than 814 million Indians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-13714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051497,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13714.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13714.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13714.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13714.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13714.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13714.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}