{"id":79607,"date":"2019-09-22T01:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T20:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=79607"},"modified":"2019-09-22T01:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T20:17:41","slug":"bye-election-to-khonsa-west-on-21-oct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/22\/bye-election-to-khonsa-west-on-21-oct\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye-election to Khonsa West on 21 Oct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 21:<\/strong> The bye-election to the Khonsa West assembly constituency in Tirap district will be held on 21 October, the Election Commission of India announced on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe notification for the bye-poll will be issued on 23 September, and the last date of filing nominations is 30 September. While the scrutiny of nominations will be done on 1 October, the last date for withdrawal of nomination is 3 October.<br \/>\nThe vote counting will be held on 24 October.<br \/>\nThe Khonsa West seat had fallen vacant after the killing of NPP candidate Tirong Aboh, who won the seat posthumously when the result was declared.<br \/>\nAboh and 10 others, including his 20-year-old son, were killed by suspected NSCN (IM) militants on 21 May near the 12 Mile area in Tirap district. He later won the seat by a margin of 1055 votes, defeating BJP&#8217;s Phawang Lowang.<br \/>\nWith the announcement of the bye-election, the election model code of conduct has come into force in Tirap district from 21 September. It will remain in force till the completion of the election.<br \/>\nThe Khonsa West constituency has a total of 10,185 electors (as on 1 January, 2019), out of which 5226 are females. There are 23 polling stations in the constituency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 21: The bye-election to the Khonsa West assembly constituency in Tirap district will be held on 21 October, the Election Commission of India announced on Saturday. The notification for the bye-poll will be issued on 23 September, and the last date of filing nominations is 30 September. While the scrutiny of nominations will [&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-79607","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\/79607","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=79607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}