The local body elections in Gujarat, involving six municipal corporations, 81 municipalities, 31 district panchayats and 231 taluka panchayats will be held in two phases, the State Election Commission (SEC) announced on Saturday. The terms of these seats had ended last year, but the elections were postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. With Saturday's announcement, the model code of conduct (MCC) becomes effective in these constituencies.
The State Election Commission (SEC) has declared the dates for the polling for the local bodies like Municipal Corporations, municipalities, the district and Tehsil Panchayats in Gujarat.
According to the programme, polling for Municipal Corporations will take place on Sunday, February 21 from 7 am to 6 pm while that for municipalities and panchayats, polling will take place on February 28th from 7 am to 6 pm.
Counting for the Municipal Corporation polls will take place on February 23 while that for municipalities and panchayats will take place on March 2.
ચુંટણી ઉપયોગી તાલીમ મોડ્યુલ ડાઉનલોડ કરવા અહી ક્લિક કરો
"After the latest electoral roll, we have 4.09 crore voters in the state. There will be 47,695 polling stations, out of which over 11 thousand are sensitive and over 6 thousand extremely sensitive, but these are not final figures and they are dynamic. The total areas for which the elections will be held will be 6,577 and total elected seats will be 9,049," said Sanjay Prasad, the State Election Commissioner."For these elections, more than 91,700 Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) will be utilised. The Voter Verification Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) won't be used in these elections, as the standing Committee constituted technical Committee had recommended that as the EVM are tamper-proof, the VVPAT are not required. So none of the state election Commissions are using them," added Prasad.
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