India
oi-Briti Roy Barman
Chandigarh, February 14: Voting for the Punjab local body elections will take place in Ludhiana on Sunday.
Voting for the elections to eight municipal corporations from Abohar, Bathinda, Batala, Kapurthala, Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot and Moga and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats in the state will take place on February 14 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A total of 9,222 candidates are in the fray for 2,302 districts.
Of the total of candidates, 2,832 are competing as independents, 2,037 are from the Congress in power and 1,569 from the Akali Dal.
The number of candidates for the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Aam Aadmi Party and the BSP is 1,003, 1,606 and 160 respectively.
The official spokesperson for the State Elections Commission said that it has installed 4,102 polling stations and of which 1,708 have been declared sensitive and 861 hypersensitive.
The spokesperson said that any voter who enters the polling station before 4 pm will have the right to vote.
The vote count will take place on February 17. The State Elections Commission also announced February 14 and 17 as dry days. Around 7,000 electronic voting machines (EVMs) have been deployed to vote. A total of 25,010 employees have also been delegated.
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