Stage is set for the first phase of parishad polls for 195 ZPTC and 2,097 MPTC seats to be held on Monday. The State Election Commission has dispatched the poll staff and the security personnel to about 10,000 polling stations. The polling would be held between 7 am and 5 am.
However, polling in 217 Territorial
Constituencies of the five districts which are affected by the Maoists would be held from 7 am to 4 pm. In the first phase, 875 candidates are in the fray for the 195 ZPTC seats and 7,017 are for 2,097 MPTC seats. In the first phase, 2 ZPTCs and 69 MPTCs were elected unanimously.