Fourth Phase Of Panchayat Polls

A few incidents of violence, mostly in Guntur district, marred the fourth and final phase of elections to the gram panchayats in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, which saw 81.78 per cent polling.

Voting for the fourth phase of the Jammu and Kashmir panchayat elections is underway at over 2,600 polling stations in the state, officials said today.

Polling for the fourth phase of panchayat election will be held on Tuesday at 2,618 polling stations across Jammu and Kashmir, state chief electoral officer Shaleen Kabra said.

Drones have been deployed in Maoist-hit Malkangiri district of Odisha for aerial surveillance during the fourth phase of panchayat elections today to ensure smooth voting.

Belying speculations that demonetisation and agitations by several communities for reservation including by Marathas will cost BJP in polls, the ruling party led by Devendra Fadnavis has emerged a winner after the fourth and the final phase of the Municipal Council and Nagar Panchayat elections in Nagpur and Gondia district on January 8, 2017.

After a spate of violence in the third and fourth phase of the panchayat polls in West Bengal, the voters will exercise their franchise in the fifth and last phase today. Almost 65 lakh people will cast their vote in four districts - North and South Dinajpur, Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri. The number of seats being contested today is 8342.

Panchayat polls are usually associated with dance of democracy. But in West Bengal, they have turned into the dance of violence. During the voting for fourth phase of panchayat elections on Monday, seven people were killed - three in Murshidabad, two in Birbhum and one each in Malda and Nadia. Five years ago, 13 people had died in the state in poll...

Two people, including a woman, were killed in clashes on Monday during the fourth phase of Panchayat elections in West Bengal.

Three Congress and one Trinamool Congress supporters were killed today in a clash in Murshidabad district of West Bengal ahead of the fourth phase of panchayat polls to be held tomorrow.

A few incidents of violence, mostly in Guntur district, marred the fourth and final phase of elections to the gram panchayats in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, which saw 81.78 per cent polling.

Voting for the fourth phase of the Jammu and Kashmir panchayat elections is underway at over 2,600 polling stations in the state, officials said today.

Polling for the fourth phase of panchayat election will be held on Tuesday at 2,618 polling stations across Jammu and Kashmir, state chief electoral officer Shaleen Kabra said.

Drones have been deployed in Maoist-hit Malkangiri district of Odisha for aerial surveillance during the fourth phase of panchayat elections today to ensure smooth voting.

Belying speculations that demonetisation and agitations by several communities for reservation including by Marathas will cost BJP in polls, the ruling party led by Devendra Fadnavis has emerged a winner after the fourth and the final phase of the Municipal Council and Nagar Panchayat elections in Nagpur and Gondia district on January 8, 2017.

After a spate of violence in the third and fourth phase of the panchayat polls in West Bengal, the voters will exercise their franchise in the fifth and last phase today. Almost 65 lakh people will cast their vote in four districts - North and South Dinajpur, Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri. The number of seats being contested today is 8342.

Panchayat polls are usually associated with dance of democracy. But in West Bengal, they have turned into the dance of violence. During the voting for fourth phase of panchayat elections on Monday, seven people were killed - three in Murshidabad, two in Birbhum and one each in Malda and Nadia. Five years ago, 13 people had died in the state in poll...

Two people, including a woman, were killed in clashes on Monday during the fourth phase of Panchayat elections in West Bengal.

Three Congress and one Trinamool Congress supporters were killed today in a clash in Murshidabad district of West Bengal ahead of the fourth phase of panchayat polls to be held tomorrow.