Polling begins in 84 urban local bodies in Uttarakhand, BJP and Congress fight it out

Therefore, a better turnout is obvious,' Bhatt delivered. Of the eighty four ULBs, seven are businesses, 39 municipal councils and 38 metropolis panchayats. Across those ULBs, there are 1,064 wards with 1,257 polling stations and 2,664 polling cubicles. Dehradun Municipal Corporation is the biggest city nearby frame with 100 wards and a voter count number of 6,23, 398. As the Lok Sabha polls are slated early subsequent year, the ULB poll is an exercise for leaders and political parties to make certain their presence and influence on floor. In the first two hours of polling, several leaders forged their vote in diverse areas across the country. In ward 31 of Kashipur Municipal Corporation, the election procedure for a councillor seat changed into suspended after election officers located out that the symbols of two applicants in the ballot papers were wrongly printed. Two independents contesting from the ward, Mohammad Bilal whose image is fuel cylinder, and Nazmi Ansari, whose image is pen, became exchanged inside the printed ballot paper. Polling in the ward continued for the mayoral candidate, but for ward councillor, it changed into suspended. Officers informed re-poll is likely to be performed in the ward on Monday, November 19. Leader of opposition Indira Hridyesh exercised her ballot in Haldwani Municipal Corporation. Her son Sumit Hridyesh is mayoral candidate from the Congress. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Dehradun mayoral candidate Rajni Rawat, a transgender, also voted in the first hour. 'The humans of Dehradun will vote for me,' Rawat stated. Dailyhunt http://www.feedbooks.com/user/4733125/profile