Elaborate arrangements have been made for the fifth and final phase of the three-tier panchayat elections to be held on Tuesday.
State Election Commission (SEC) Secretary Rabindranath Sahu said polling for 1,173 sarpanches, 16,148 Samiti members and 149 Zilla Parishad (ZP) members would be held in 26 districts.
“Barring Angul, Boudh, Jharsuguda and Malkangiri, elections will be held in the remaining 26 districts in which a total of 44,50,893 voters will exercise their franchise,” he said.
Meanwhile, re-polling was held amid tight security in several places where incidents of violence had been reported in the previous phases of the elections.
The fresh polling was held in Dhenkanal district’s Bhuban, Puri’s Krushnaprasad and Brahmagiri and Balliguda area and K Nuagaon block in Kandhamal district. Four blocks of Kirtanpur of Bhuban Zilla Parishad zone 3 in Dhenkanal district also went for re-polling.