Jammu and Kashmir: Campaigning for Block Development Council polls ends

The campaigning for the Block Development Council polls came to end last evening. In all, 1,065 candidates are in the fray for elections of Chairpersons for the Block Development Councils to be held tomorrow. 

A total of 1,092 nominations were found eligible after the scrutiny and withdrawal, out of which 27 candidates belonging to various political parties were elected unopposed.  For the smooth conduct of elections, there will be one polling station for one Block Development Council.  The electorate consists of total 26,629 electors including



8,313 women.

Polling parties are being despatched today to the polling booths. The counting of votes will be taken up tomorrow and results are expected by late tomorrow evening. The BDC elections will be the last electoral exercise in the state before it is formally bifurcated into two Union Territories on the midnight of October 31. Necessary arrangements have been put in place for the smooth conduct of elections. Police and Security Forces are being deployed around the polling stations to ensure peaceful polling.