{"id":21255,"date":"2018-02-08T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=21255"},"modified":"2018-02-08T12:01:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:01:32","slug":"scrutiny-of-nominations-in-nagaland-and-meghalaya-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/scrutiny-of-nominations-in-nagaland-and-meghalaya-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrutiny of nominations in Nagaland and Meghalaya today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations for Nagaland and Meghalaya assembly elections ended on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Scrutiny of nominations papers for both the states is being held today while the last date for withdrawal is February 12.<\/p>\n<p>In Nagaland, 256 nominations have been filed for the 60-member House. The ruling NPF is contesting on 59 seats, followed by the newly-floated Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party led by three-time chief minister Neiphiu Rio on 40 seats.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP has fielded candidates on 20 seats while Congress is contesting on 19 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Meghalaya, a total of 443 candidates have filed papers for the 60 member house.<\/p>\n<p>These candidates include 59 of the Congress, 53 of the NPP and 47 contestants of the BJP besides other regional parties and independents.<\/p>\n<p>Meghalaya will go to poll on February 27 along with Nagaland.<\/p>\n<p>Results of these polls will come on March 3 along with Nagaland and Tripura.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations for Nagaland and Meghalaya assembly elections ended on Wednesday. Scrutiny of nominations papers for both the states is being held today while the last date for withdrawal is February 12. In Nagaland, 256 nominations have been filed for the 60-member House. The ruling NPF is contesting on 59 seats, followed by the newly-floated Nationalist [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21257,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21255\/revisions\/21257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}