A huge rush in seen among the candidates for the nomination of the post of president and ward commissioner on the last day of filing nominations for the Civic Body polls. A total of 16 candidates for president and 161 for ward commissioner filed nominations.
District election officer-cum-district commissioner, Sudhanshu Bhusan Ram said that an ideal election code has been implemented in the election area. A total of 158 EVM have been provided for conducting the elections scheduled to be held on 7 March from 7 am to 3 pm. Counting will begin at 8 pm.
For the post of president Manorma Ekka, Prabhat kumar Bhagat, asha lakra, Reshma Devi, Sanjay Toppo, Pawan Tigga, Pawan Ekka, Sanjeet Kumar lakra, Balmukund lohra, amaranth lakra, Munda Oraon, laxmi narajan Bhagat, Yogindra kumar munda, Wiliam Kujur, Shishir Toppo and Jaydeep Bhagat have filed the nomination.