{"id":211659,"date":"2023-02-25T01:26:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=211659"},"modified":"2023-02-25T01:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:56:44","slug":"meghalaya-border-to-be-sealed-till-2-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/meghalaya-border-to-be-sealed-till-2-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya border to be sealed till 2 Mar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHILLONG, 24 Feb:<\/strong> To ensure free and fair assembly elections in Meghalaya, the election commission has ordered sealing of the Indo-Bangladesh border in the state till 2 March, Chief Electoral Officer FR Kharkong said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The poll panel has also ordered the sealing of the interstate border with Assam till 2 March, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Polls for the 60-member assembly constituency will be held on 27 February and the votes will be counted on 2 March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0&#8220;All districts having international border with Bangladesh have been asked to issue orders to seal, and movement of people in the border areas would be restricted,&#8221; Kharkongor told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The operation of &#8216;border haats&#8217; has also been deferred till the completion of the election process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If the unregulated movement of individuals between the two countries is allowed, there is a likelihood of law and order problems leading to danger to human life and disturbance to public tranquillity,&#8221; the CEO said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLONG, 24 Feb: To ensure free and fair assembly elections in Meghalaya, the election commission has ordered sealing of the Indo-Bangladesh border in the state till 2 March, Chief Electoral Officer FR Kharkong said on Friday. The poll panel has also ordered the sealing of the interstate border with Assam till 2 March, he said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}