Voting For 476 Block Panchayat Chief Posts Underway In UP

The voting will continue till 3 pm and the counting of votes will start right after that, the State Election Commission said.

Voting for 476 posts of block panchayat chiefs began at 11 am in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, the State Election Commission said. The voting will continue till 3 pm and the counting of votes will start right after that, it said. A total of 349 candidates for the block panchayat chief posts were elected unopposed on Friday, the last day for the withdrawal of nomination papers. In a statement issued here on Friday, State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar had said 1,778 nomination papers were received for 825 posts of the block panchayat chief, of which 68 were cancelled and 187 withdrawn.