In the third phase of Three-tier Panchayat Election 2014-15, voting will be held in 51 Janpad Panchayats of 26 districts on Wednesday. Nearly 45,20,350 voters will exercise their franchise to elect their representative. This includes 22,78,211 male voters and 22,42, 139 female voters, according to an official statement issued by Chhattisgarh State Election Commission (CSEC) on Tuesday.
Total 9435 polling booths have been set up, out of which 3695 have been marked as sensitive and 1575 polling booths have been underlined as hyper sensitive. In the third phase, total 52,660 Panch, 3737 Sarpanch, 1002 Janpad Panchayat members and 141 Jila Panchayat members will be elected. Total 1,50,322 candidates are contesting the elections, which includes 81,008 candidates for Panchs, 18,210 for Sarpanchs, 5295 for Janpad Panchayat members and 809 candidates for Jila Panchayat members.
Moreover, the CSEC has issued time-schedule programme for recall elections to be held in 45 polling booths of 6 districts for three-tier Panchayat elections 2014-15. Second round voting will be held in these polling booths, as it could not be held earlier for various reasons. As per the programme, recall elections in these polling booths of second phase will be held along with third-phase voting on February 4, 2015. Counting, tabulation and declaration of election results will be done as per the programme prescribed by the Commission in its order dated January 15, 2015. For polling booths in Bilaspur, Raigarh, Bastar, Kanker and Kondagaon districts, voting will be held from 7 am to 3 pm. In polling booths of Sukma district, the timing will be 6.45 am to 2 pm. Commission has issued order in the context yesterday.
As per the orders issued by State Election Office, recall elections will be held in polling booth no. 60 of Gram Panchayat Katra in Janpad Panchayat Marwahi of Bilaspur, no. 102 of Gram Panchayat Gwalin D of Janpad Panchayat Sarangarh in Raigarh district, no. 125 of Karraha, 138 of Amlidipi, 135 of Kapisda BK, 179 of Khamhardih, 166 and 167 of Paraskol. In polling booth no. 26 of Deurgaon Gram Panchayat in Tokapal Janpad Panchayat of Bastar district, no. 73,74 of Telawat Gram Panchayat of Janpad Panchayat Kanker, no. 5,6 of Badagaon Gram Panchayat of Janpad Panchayat Pharasgaon in Kondagaon district, no. 45, 46, 47 of Gram Panchayat Hatchapai, recall elections will be held with phase-3 elections. Commission has issued orders to hold recall elections in 13 Gram Panchayats, which includes polling booth no. 1,2 in Maroki Gram Panchayat, no. 3,4, in Chingavaram, no. 5,6 in Dedpal, no, 12,13,14,15,16 of Korra, no. 17, 18 in Manakpal, no. 19, 20 of Gufdi, no. 21, 22 of Pordem, no. 47 of Geerampal, bi, 51, 53, 54 of Badesatti, no. 55, 56 of Gondpalli, no. 57, 58 of Gonderas, no. 59, 60 of Pongabheji and no. 61 and 62 of Sirsatti.