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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 13
The voting process of elections to eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and municipal panchayats will be held from 8 am to 4 pm on Sunday. All arrangements have been put in place by the administration.
An official spokesperson for the commission said 30 IAS/PCS officers had been deputed as observers to conduct free and fair elections. Apart from this, IG/DIG-level officers had also been appointed as police observers.
IPS Mukhwinder Singh Chinna has been deputed as the observer for SAS Nagar, Roopnagar and Fatehgarh Sahib; Surjit Singh for Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur and Pathankot; Baljit Singh Rathore for Bathinda, Mansa and Faridkot; Surinder Kumar Kalia for Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala and SBS Nagar.
Polling officials check EVMs in Amritsar on Saturday
BATHINDA: All is set for the elections at eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats across the state on Sunday. The polling parties left for the polling booths. The polling will be held from 8am till 4pm.
Going by a number of violent incidents in the run up to the elections during campaigning, including killing of two supporters of a candidate at Moga and an attack on the vehicle of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal at Jalalabad SDM office, elaborate security has been made to avoid or timely action in case of any untoward incident during polling.