UP Panchayat Polls begins on April 15, here's all you need to know

The elections will be held for the post of Zilla Panchayat chairperson in all 75 districts, Besides, 826 kshetra panchayat heads and 58,194 gram pradhans will be chosen.

Published on: 27 March 2021 10:27 AM GMT

UP Panchayat Polls begin on April 15, heres all about you need to know

The Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission (UPSEC) Friday announced the dates of the four-phase panchayat elections, which will begin on April 15. The results will be announced on May 2.

In a notification, the polling body said the nomination process for the first phase would begin April 4, while the deadline for withdrawing candidature is April 7. Nomination papers will be distributed at the district level from March 27.

4-phase panchayat polls

“In the first phase there are 18 districts, 19 districts in the second phase, 20 in the third phase and 18 districts in the fourth phase,” said State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar, adding, “The polls have already been delayed because of corona [Covid-19 pandemic] and we had very limited time. Thus, it has been decided to complete the poll in a set period.”

The elections were due in December 2020 but had to be postponed due to the pandemic.

The districts where the three-tier panchayat polls will be held in phase one are Saharanpur, Ghaziabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Hathras, Agra, Kanpur City, Jhansi, Mahoba, Prayagraj, Rae Bareli, Hardoi, Ayodhya, Shravasti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Gorakhpur, Jaunpur and Bhadohi.

In the following phase, the elections will be held in Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Gautam Budh Nagar (Noida), Bijnore, Amroha, Badaun, Etah, Mainpuri, Kannauj, Etawah, Lalitpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Lucknow, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sultanpur, Gonda, Maharajganj, Varanasi, and Azamgarh. While nominations for this phase will start from April 7, they can be withdrawn till April 11. The polls will be held on April 19.

The third phase will be organised a week later in the districts of Shamli, Meerut, Moradabad, Pilibhit, Kasganj, Firozabad, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Unnao, Amethi, Barabanki, Balrampur, Sidharthanagar, Deoria, Chandauli, Mirzapur and Ballia. Nominations will begin on April 13, and can be withdrawn till April 18.

The final phase will be held on April 29 in the districts of Bulandshahr, Hapur, Sambhal, Shahjahanpur. Aligarh, Mathura, Farukhabad, Banda, Kaushambi, Sitapur, Ambedkar Nagar. Bahraich, Basti, Kushinagar, Ghazipur, Sonbhadra and Mau. Nominations will start on April 17, and the deadline for withdrawing candidature is April 21.