{"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","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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}]}}