Notification for Gujarat panchayat/nagarpalika polls issued

Gandhinagar

The notification for the second phase of the local body polls in Gujarat slated to be held on November 29 in 56 municipalities, 31 district panchayats and 230 taluka panchayats has been issued today paving the way for the start of nomination process.

The nomination process for the second phase polls will continue till November 10.

Secretary of the State Election Commission Mahesh Joshi said that the notification for the second phase polls has been issued today paving the way for the start of the nomination process. The scrutiny of the papers would be done on November 14 while the last date for withdrawal of nominations was November 16. Counting for both the phases would take place on December 2.
The notification for the first phase polls on November 22 in the six municipal corporations was issued on November 2. The last date of filing nomination papers for the first phase polls is November 7. The scrutiny of papers and last date for withdrawal of nominations for the first phase were November 8 and 10 respectively.

Election will be held on over 7800 seats during the second phase polls in 56 municipalities (2096 seats), 31 district panchayats (988 seats) and 230 taluka panchayats (4778 seats).

The 6 municipal corporations (Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Vadodara) will go to polls in first phase on November 22 will have a total of 572 seats in all the 143 wards.

– DeshGujarat