Nomination process for the second phase of polling in the crucial Municipal and Panchayat elections scheduled on November 26, commenced on Wednesday. Nomination process for the first phase, which started on October 29 in 24 districts, will end on November 6 while nominations for the third and last phase will commence on November 4.
The second phase of polling would cover 25 districts which include six Municipal Corporations, 51 Nagar Palika Parishad and 132 Nagar Panchayats. The last date of filing of papers is November 7. Scrutiny of papers would be done the next day while November 10 is the last date for withdrawal.
The districts going to polls in the second phase on November 26 are Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Amroha, Rampur, Pilibhit, Shahjehanpur, Aligarh, Mathura, Mainpuri, Farrukhabad, Etawah, lalitpur, Banda, Allahabad, lucknow, Sultanpur, Ambedkarnagar, Bahriach, Shravasti, Sant Kabirnagar, Deoria, Ballia, Varanasi and Bhadoi.
State Election Commissioner (SEC) SK Agarwal said in lucknow on Wednesday that nominations for the second phase started after Returning Officers notified the poll process for the second phase. He said that in the first phase of polls, till date, 190 nominations have been filed so far and November 6 was the last date for submission of papers by candidates.
Voting for 16 Municipal Corporations, 198 Municipalities and 438 Panchayats will be held in three phases on November 22, 26 and 29 and results are expected on December 1.
However, elections to Bharwari Municipality of Kaushambi, which was upgraded by Yogi Adityanath government would not be held.