Chairpersons are elected from among elected members of zila panchayats of districts. Voting began at 11am and counting of votes will be held after 3pm, state election commission said.
Hearing a PIL on spread of Covid in UP, two-judge HC bench said state EC and govt must rethink amount of compensation and come back to court on next hearing.
BJP members agree it's time for party to introspect on what went wrong in UP, say rebels and failed promises to deliver welfare schemes have resulted in poor panchayat poll performance.
The State Election Commission had said candidates and their agents will be allowed to enter the counting centres only if they tested negative for Covid or taken both vaccine doses.
Four-phase panchayat polls in UP begin Thursday. India is currently experiencing a Covid wave that has seen mounting case tallies, and situation is grim in UP as well.
Candidates for this week’s UP panchayat polls include former MPs Ram Sagar Rawat and Seema Upadhyay, and model Diksha Singh, a runner-up of 2015 Miss India pageant.
Hardik Patel rose to prominence in 2015 on the back of Patidar quota agitation. He joined Congress in 2019, and was made its Gujarat unit working president in July 2020.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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