The counting of votes for the three tier Panchayat elections started in 89 blocks belonging to 12 districts of the State on Friday. The counting process is slow and all results are expected to be declared till Saturday.
The counting started at 8 am on Friday in all the 89 block headquarters amid tight security. The State Election Commission has appointed special observers to keep an eye on the counting process.
The SEC has made arrangements for round-the-clock counting of votes till the declaration of all results and for this the duties of employees assigned the task of counting would change after every 12 hours. The counting process involved mixing of the ballots and making bundles of 50 each.
The votes for the position of Member Village Panchayat and Pradhans were counted first. At the time of writing this report the results of 3445 Pradhans were declared out of total 6624 positions for which the elections were held, 1,009 positions of Pradhans are already elected unopposed.
The positions of 1,048 out of 2,884 Member Block Panchayat were declared till late evening while 170 such positions of were elected unopposed. The counting process of Member District Panchayat is taking more time and results of only 33 out of 389 such positions were declared till the time of writing this story.