Lucknow: Counting of votes polled for the 476 posts of block panchayat chiefs has begun on Satuday (July 10) in Uttar Pradesh, the State Election Commission stated.
The counting of votes commenced after the voting concluded at 3 pm, it stated. Voting was held from 11 am to three pm on Saturday, based on information company PTI.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed officers that tight safety preparations ought to be made at every block the place counting is happening.
In an announcement issued right here, Adityanath stated there ought to be a system in place whereby the profitable and dropping candidates be escorted to their properties beneath police safety.
“The police force should remain extra alert and sensitive. Stringent action should be initiated against people who indulge in vitiating the atmosphere,” he stated.
A complete of 349 candidates for the block panchayat chief posts have been elected unopposed on Friday, the final day for the withdrawal of nomination papers.
In an announcement issued right here on Friday, State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar had stated 1,778 nomination papers have been acquired for 825 posts of the block panchayat chief, of which 68 have been cancelled and 187 withdrawn.
As a consequence, now 1,710 candidates will go into the elections on Saturday, he had stated.
As the State Election Commission introduced that candidates on 349 posts have been elected unopposed, an office-bearer of the BJP claimed that 334 among the many profitable candidates belonged to the ruling occasion.
UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh stated a state of improvement and good governance has been established by eradicating casteism and corruption in Uttar Pradesh after the formation of the federal government beneath the management of Chief Minister Adityanath.
“This is the reason that even in the three-tier panchayat elections, the BJP is continuously achieving victories, which is the stamp of people’s approval on the policies of the BJP,” he stated earlier in an announcement.
Opposition events, together with the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress, have accused the ruling BJP of damaging democracy within the elections of kshetra panchayat chiefs and attacked it for allegedly exhibiting “utter disrespect” to ladies throughout the election course of.
They accused the federal government of misusing energy and official equipment within the panchayat elections.
Hitting out on the BJP authorities, BSP chief Mayawati alleged that there’s ‘jungle raj’ within the state.
In a tweet in Hindi on Saturday, she stated, “In the reign of the current BJP authorities in UP, there isn’t any rule of regulation, however a jungle raj is prevailing there, beneath which there was widespread violence within the panchayat polls, and there was indecent behaviour with a girl in Lakhimpur Kheri.
