UP Panchayat Chunav 2021: Voting for the very first of the 4-phase Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections across 18 districts will be held tomorrow. The election that will be held applying ballot papers is becoming noticed as a semi-final to the 2022 Assembly election. An unprecedented 3.33 lakh candidates are in the fray for the 2.21 lakh seats going to polls for the posts of Zila panchayat (district council) members, kshetra (block) panchayat members, village panchayat heads and ward members.
Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election 2021 Date and Time: Voting will take spot from 7 am to 6 pm tomorrow, i.e. April 15.
Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election 2021 Constituency List: Districts that are going to the polls in the very first phase are Ayodhya, Agra, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Jaunpur, Jhansi, Allahabad, Bareilly, Bhadohi, Mahoba, Rampur, Raebareli, Shravasti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Saharanpur, Hardoi and Hathras.
Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election 2021 Candidate List: There are 11,442 candidates for the post of Zila panchayat members for 779 wards, when as numerous as 81,747 candidates are contesting in 19,313 wards of kshetra panchayats. For the gram panchayat, there are 1,14,142 candidates for 14,789 posts. For gram panchayat wards, there are 1,26,613 candidates for 1,86,583 seats.
Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election 2021 Party List: This is the very first time that political parties are openly supporting the candidates. The candidates, nevertheless, will be contesting polls on symbols allocated by the EC. Apart from parties like the BJP, BSP, Samajwadi Party and the Congress, the AIMIM, Aam Aadmi Party and Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad’s Azad Samaj Party are creating their debut in the state.
Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election 2021 COVID-19 Guidelines: Additional Election Commissioner Ved Prakash Verma has mentioned that a 3-member group was formed below the extra district magistrates to guarantee the directives issued by the SEC had been becoming followed. At the district level, the chief health-related officers have been produced nodal officers and anxiety has been laid on COVID-19 prevention. The voters will be essential to have a mask and preserve social distancing. The EC will also be arranging PPE kits as per requirement.