{"id":82514,"date":"2019-10-22T01:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=82514"},"modified":"2019-10-22T01:29:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T19:59:36","slug":"khonsa-bye-poll-peaceful-89-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/10\/22\/khonsa-bye-poll-peaceful-89-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Khonsa bye-poll peaceful, 89% turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Oct 21:<\/strong> The voting in the bye-election to the Khonsa West assembly constituency in Tirap district went peacefully on Monday.<br \/>\nThe polling saw a high voter turnout of 89 percent, according to the office of the state&#8217;s chief electoral officer (CEO). Tirap DEO PN Thungon said 20 polling stations recorded more than 90 percent voter turnout.<br \/>\nThe contest is between independent candidates Chakat Aboh and Azet Homtok.<br \/>\nAboh, the widow of slain MLA Tirong Aboh, is expected to win the contest, and is the consensus candidate of five political parties, including the BJP, the Congress, and the NPP.<br \/>\nAn additional 12 companies of central forces, besides the normal strength, were deployed in the entire constituency to ensure peaceful conduct of the election, the CEO&#8217;s office informed.<br \/>\nThe polling in all the 23 polling stations was by and large peaceful. The constituency has a total electorate of 10,186, with 5,226 female voters.<br \/>\nThe counting of votes is scheduled for 24 October.<br \/>\nThe bye-election was necessitated following the assassination of Tirong Aboh on 21 May. He was killed along with 10 others, including his son, while they were returning to Khonsa from Assam.<br \/>\nThe Tirap massacre, believed to have been carried out by the NSCN (IM), occurred just two days before the declaration of the 11 April election results.<br \/>\nTirong Aboh, of the NPP, won the election posthumously, defeating Phawang Lowang of the BJP by more than 1000 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Oct 21: The voting in the bye-election to the Khonsa West assembly constituency in Tirap district went peacefully on Monday. The polling saw a high voter turnout of 89 percent, according to the office of the state&#8217;s chief electoral officer (CEO). Tirap DEO PN Thungon said 20 polling stations recorded more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82514","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\/82514","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=82514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}