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36% polling recorded till noon in first phase of Haryana's panchayat election

November 02, 2022 04:32 PM

Chandigarh: Thirty-six per cent polling was recorded by noon on Wednesday for polls to elect panches and sarpanches in nine Haryana districts in the first phase of the three-phase voting. The polling is going on in the districts of Bhiwani, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal, Mahendragarh, Nuh, Panchkula, Panipat and Yamunanagar, officials said.

The polling began at 7am and will continue till 6pm. In Nuh, some incidents of fight and stone-pelting were reported from two villages, though police said these incidents did not take place on the polling booth and the poll process remained unaffected.

"There is no incident at the polling booth. However, there were some incidents of fight and stone-pelting in two villages," Nuh's Superintendent of Police Varun Singla told news agency .The polling process is unaffected, Singla said.
A number of voters, including women, had queued up since morning in many districts and many elderly also cast their vote.

By noon, among the districts, Nuh had recorded 42.2 per cent poll percentage, Panchkula 40.4 per cent, Kaithal 36.1 per cent and Jind recorded 35.9 per cent. According to an official statement, Haryana State Election Commissioner Dhanpat Singh had on Tuesday said polling would be held on November 2 for electing 2,607 sarpanches and 25,968 panches in these nine districts.

The first phase polls for zila parishads and panchayat samitis in these districts was held on October 30.

 

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