The State Election Commission (SEC) has stated that elections to the post of Sarpanch of Dhinkia gram panchayat in Jagatsinghpur District will be held next year.
SEC Secretary RN Sahu also said that polls to the 23 Ward Members in the area would be held in 2023.
The tenure of Dhinkia GP would be over in 2023 as the last elections were held in 2018, the SEC informed.
The election to Dhinkia panchayat had been delayed by over two years and was held in 2018 due to the agitation against the Posco steel project. Later the company abandoned its project.
Recently, Dhinkia was in news due to an agitation by villagers against the proposed steel plant project of JSW and police excesses on them.
Notably, the three-tier panchayat election will be held elsewhere in the State in five phases from February 16, 2022.