Polling said for the ultimate part of Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections at 7.00 am on Thursday throughout 17 districts. The polling is scheduled in the districts of Ambedkar Nagar, Aligarh, Kushinagar, Kaushambi, Ghazipur, Farrukhabad, Bulandshahr, Basti, Bahraich, Banda, Mau, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, Sambhal, Sitapur, Sonbhadra and Hapur.
2.98 crore eligible voters will vote in 48,460 polling cubicles until 6.00 pm. The Election Commission has posted 2.43 lakh officers and workers have been deployed to hold out the final part. Over 5.27 lakh candidates are in the fray for greater than 2.10 lakh seats in 17 districts in this spherical of the election.
Manoj Kumar, Commissioner of the State Election Commission, gave crucial directions to the District Election Officers of the respective 17 districts to conduct free and honest elections. He mentioned that there are satisfactory sanitizers, masks, and so on accessible at each polling station by following the social distance as per guidelines.
The State Election Commissioner mentioned that seating of polling occasion members / polling brokers must be made retaining in thoughts the foundations of social distancing. It will probably be necessary for the particular person getting into the polling station to placed on a masks. He has given strict directions that each voter who comes for voting must be admitted solely after sanitizing earlier than getting into the sales space.
The Allahabad High Court had requested the Uttar Pradesh authorities to conclude the panchayat election course of by May 25. The counting of votes will happen on May 2.
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