{"id":130538,"date":"2024-11-13T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T03:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=130538"},"modified":"2024-11-13T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T03:46:04","slug":"polling-station-incident-crpf-soldier-injured-amid-jharkhand-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=130538","title":{"rendered":"Polling Station Incident: CRPF Soldier Injured Amid Jharkhand Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/New-Logo-Smal-2.jpg?resize=198%2C55&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"55\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">A<\/span> CRPF soldier was shot while on duty at a polling station in <a href=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=129947\">Jharkhand<\/a> during the voting process. The incident occurred at the Latehar polling center. The soldier was immediately sent to a medical facility for treatment, and it has been reported that his health is stable. It&#8217;s important to note that voting has started in 43 constituencies across the state since morning. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Polling Station Incident: CRPF Soldier Injured Amid Jharkhand Elections\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-130539 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ANI-20231107123-0_1699352782287_1699352800530.avif\" alt=\"Polling Station Incident: CRPF Soldier Injured Amid Jharkhand Elections\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ANI-20231107123-0_1699352782287_1699352800530.avif 1600w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ANI-20231107123-0_1699352782287_1699352800530-300x169.avif 300w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ANI-20231107123-0_1699352782287_1699352800530-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ANI-20231107123-0_1699352782287_1699352800530-768x432.avif 768w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ANI-20231107123-0_1699352782287_1699352800530-1536x864.avif 1536w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ANI-20231107123-0_1699352782287_1699352800530-750x422.avif 750w, https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/ANI-20231107123-0_1699352782287_1699352800530-1140x641.avif 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/a>Polling Station Incident: CRPF Soldier Injured Amid Jharkhand Elections<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Jharkhand Assembly has a total of 81 seats, of which 44 are unreserved, 28 are reserved for Scheduled Tribes, and 9 are reserved for Scheduled Castes. According to the Election Commission, there are a total of 26 million voters in Jharkhand as of October 15, including 12.9 million women and 13.1 million men. Additionally, 1.184 million young voters will exercise their voting rights for the first time in this election.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CRPF soldier was shot while on duty at a polling station in Jharkhand during the voting process. The incident occurred at the Latehar polling center. The soldier was immediately sent to a medical facility for treatment, and it has been reported that his health is stable. It&#8217;s important to note that voting has started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"News Desk :","format":"standard","jnews_video_option_group":[[]],"override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"2","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[203],"tags":[35187,35181,35182,35174,35186,35193,35179,35180,35191,35176,35177,35190,35175,35192,35185,35184,35178,35183,35194,35188,35189],"class_list":["post-130538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-26-million-voters","tag-43-constituencies-voting","tag-81-seats-jharkhand-assembly","tag-crpf-soldier-shot","tag-election-commission-jharkhand","tag-election-updates-jharkhand","tag-health-stable","tag-jharkhand-assembly-elections","tag-jharkhand-voter-statistics","tag-jharkhand-voting","tag-latehar-polling-center","tag-october-2023-elections","tag-polling-station-incident","tag-polling-station-security-incident","tag-reserved-for-scheduled-castes","tag-reserved-for-scheduled-tribes","tag-soldier-medical-treatment","tag-unreserved-seats","tag-voter-turnout-jharkhand","tag-women-voters-jharkhand","tag-young-voters-first-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":157258,"url":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=157258","url_meta":{"origin":130538,"position":0},"title":"Meghalaya Violence: Fresh Arson, Petrol Bombs Damage Government Assets","author":"ASSAM TIMES POST","date":"August 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Multiple arson and petrol-bomb attacks were reported across Meghalaya over the past 24 hours, authorities said on August 21, as violence that began during a students\u2019 bike rally in Shillong two days earlier spread to several districts. 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