{"id":96847,"date":"2020-03-18T01:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=96847"},"modified":"2020-03-18T01:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:14:59","slug":"put-panchayat-municipal-elections-on-hold-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/18\/put-panchayat-municipal-elections-on-hold-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Panchayat &#038; Municipal elections on hold : NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Mar 17:<\/strong> The state unit of the National People&#8217;s Party (NPP) has suggested the state government to not hold the panchayat and municipal elections in view of the widespread outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).<br \/>\nStating that the current situation is not conducive for holding elections, the party urged the government to put them on hold until the outbreak of Covid-19 is completely brought under control.<br \/>\n&#8220;There will be people-to-people contact during election-related meetings, public gathering, rallies etc, and the spread of the new virus cannot be ruled out in such situation,&#8221; the NPP said in a press statement.<br \/>\nIt appreciated the state government&#8217;s measures put in place to prevent the outbreak of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Mar 17: The state unit of the National People&#8217;s Party (NPP) has suggested the state government to not hold the panchayat and municipal elections in view of the widespread outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). Stating that the current situation is not conducive for holding elections, the party urged the government to put them [&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-96847","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\/96847","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=96847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}