Polling for gram panchayats underway in Punjab

Polling for gram panchayats in Punjab was underway amid tight security arrangements on Tuesday (October 15, 2024), officials said here.

They said voting for the posts of 'sarpanch' and 'panch' through ballot boxes began at 8 a.m. and would continue till 4 p.m.

After the polling, the votes will be counted at the polling stations, the officials said.

There are 19,110 polling booths, 1,187 of them marked as hyper-sensitive, for the election. There are 13,225 gram panchayats in the State.