{"id":1043981,"date":"2026-10-16T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043981"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:43:52","slug":"jana-senas-initiative-to-invite-online-poll-applications-sparks-debate-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/jana-senas-initiative-to-invite-online-poll-applications-sparks-debate-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Jana Sena\u2019s initiative to invite online poll applications sparks debate on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: Jana Sena Party\u2019s (JSP) initiative to invite applications online from aspirants for the upcoming local body elections has triggered a debate on social media, with even some party supporters questioning the process and political handles and users posting critical comments. <\/p>\n<p>According to the party\u2019s website, around 3,327 applications had been received from across 25 parliamentary constituencies by 8 p.m. on Thursday, with two candidates finalised so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: Jana Sena Party\u2019s (JSP) initiative to invite applications online from aspirants for the upcoming local body elections has triggered a debate on social media, with even some party supporters questioning the process and political handles and users posting critical comments. According to the party\u2019s website, around 3,327 applications had been received from across 25 parliamentary constituencies by 8 p.m. on Thursday, with two candidates finalised so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044004,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043981\/revisions\/1044004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}