Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission (SEC) on Monday announced that the local body elections in eight municipal bodies and one district Panchayat of the State will be held on December 22. With the announcement of dates, model code of conduct came into force in these bodies.
State election commissioner R Parsuram while announcing the dates said that besides the elections of eight municipal bodies’ bypolls will also held at five other municipal bodies and 106 village Panchayats on the same date.
Parsuram while addressing media persons here at the SEC office said, “Polls will be held at Nagar Palikas Parishad, Sehore, Nagar Parishad Shahganj also in Sehore district, Nagar Palika Parishad Shajapur, Nagar Palika Parishad Mandsaur, Nagar Parishad Majhauli (Sidhi district), Nagar Parishad Dhamod (Ratlam district), Nagar Parishad Orchha (Tikamgarh district), Nagar Parishad Bhedaghat (Jabalpur district) and District Panchayat Anuppur on December 22.”
Parsuram further said, “By polls will be held on the same date at Nagar Palika Parishad Malajkhand (Balaghat district), Nagar Palika Parishad Sarani (Betul), Nagar Parishad Niwas (Mandla), Nagar Parishad Ranapur (Jhabua), Nagar Parishad Ratangarh (Datia district) and at 106 village Panchayats.”
He said that the nomination will begin from December 1 and the last date for filing nomination would be December 8, scrutiny of documents would take place on December 9 and December 11 will be the last date for withdrawing candidature while on the same date itself candidates will allotted their symbols.
He said that the voting would be held on December 22 and counting for municipal bodies will be done on December 26 while the tabulation and declaration of result for the District Panchayat would be held on December 27.
EVM machines will be used for all the elections, except in the election for the post of over 10, 000 Panchs in village Panchayats, he added.