{"id":1234,"date":"2014-02-19T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:22:53","slug":"voting-in-upazila-election-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/voting-in-upazila-election-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting in upazila election ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voting for the first phase of upazila election ended at around 4pm on Wednesday with a number of candidates boycotting polls.<br \/>\nLocal units of BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal in three upazilas for Thursday alleging ouster of their agents and voters at different centres in the upazila election.<br \/>\nThe upazilas include: Sujanagar of Pabna, Shailkupa upazila of Jhenidah and Gournadi upazila of Barisal.<br \/>\nEight BNP-backed candidates boycotted their polls in Gauranadi upazila of Barisal and Shailkupa upazila of Jhenidah district alleging ouster of their agents and voters at different centres.<br \/>\nThe residents of 97 upazila parishads cast their votes with participation of candidates of several parties, including Awami League and BNP.<br \/>\nOverall 432 candidates contested for chairmen, 513 for vice chairmen, and 329 for vice chairwomen in 97 upazilas.<br \/>\nThe day has been declared as a public holiday by the government in the polling areas.<br \/>\nThe army and regular law enforces were deployed in the upazilas to maintain law and order.<br \/>\nThere are 1, 64, 78,172 voters, 6,995 polling stations, and 43,290 booths in the 98 upazilas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/voting-in-upazila-election-ends\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for the first phase of upazila election ended at around 4pm on Wednesday with a number of candidates boycotting polls. Local units of BNP called dawn-to-dusk hartal in three upazilas for Thursday alleging ouster of their agents and voters at different centres in the upazila election. The upazilas include: Sujanagar of Pabna, Shailkupa upazila &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}