{"id":66820,"date":"2019-05-12T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T20:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=66820"},"modified":"2019-05-12T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T20:12:14","slug":"rakso-voters-seek-fresh-poll-within-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/05\/12\/rakso-voters-seek-fresh-poll-within-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakso voters seek fresh poll within a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, May 11:<\/strong> Voters of Rakso village in the Palin-Chambang assembly constituency of Kra Daadi district who are claiming to have been deprived of their voting rights staged a protest outside the Nirvachan Bhavan here on Saturday, seeking fresh polls for Rakso &#8220;at a neutral area&#8221; within seven days.<br \/>\nAfter the first notified polling on 11 April, fresh polls were held on 27 April in Rakso, following reports of violence and booth capturing there.<br \/>\nClaiming that &#8220;democracy was brutally murdered&#8221; through booth capturing and use of force and threats during the fresh polls held on 27 April, about 40-50 voters protesting in the capital claimed that over 160 voters of Rakso were restricted from entering the polling area while some were &#8220;beaten black and blue&#8221; during the fresh polls on 27 April.<br \/>\nCiting complete breakdown of the election machinery, the &#8216;chairman&#8217; leading the voters, Biri Niania, said, &#8220;The returning officer, sector magistrate, polling officers<br \/>\nand police force on duty were nothing but mere spectators.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe voters also claimed that the roads to the polling station were blocked, petrol bombs were thrown at the voters, and stones were pelted by the Janata Dal (United) candidate&#8217;s workers while &#8220;the authorities responsible were inactive and the police force on duty was on standby.&#8221;<br \/>\nBesides seeking fresh polls within a week, the voters said the polling should be conducted at a neutral venue, under strict vigilance and tight security.<br \/>\nThey warned that if the election commission fails to meet their demands, they would launch more protests at the Nirvachan Bhavan and its branch offices in Palin and Koloriang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, May 11: Voters of Rakso village in the Palin-Chambang assembly constituency of Kra Daadi district who are claiming to have been deprived of their voting rights staged a protest outside the Nirvachan Bhavan here on Saturday, seeking fresh polls for Rakso &#8220;at a neutral area&#8221; within seven days. After the first notified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66820","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=66820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}