Chhattisgarh urban body election 2019: Live updates

Chhattisgarh urban body election 2019
Chhattisgarh urban body election 2019

The checking of votes started at 9 am today under tight security game plans in Chhattisgarh to choose the destiny of 10167 applicants who were in the survey conflict for 151 city bodies. The procedure started with the tallying of postal polling forms.

The Bhupesh Baghel bureau had in October this year cleared the proposition on returning to voting form papers and holding the circuitous Mayoral decisions in the urban neighborhood bodies surveys. Consequently, the Chhattisgarh Municipalities Act was amended amid strong protest by the opposition BJP.  The elections were held for 10 municipal corporations, 38 municipal councils and 103 Nagar panchayats to elect the corporators for 2,831 wards.

The voter turnout of 78.73 percent was recorded in the urban body polls held on December 21. The counting of the ballot papers will begin after taking into account the postal ballots, a state election commission official said. It is believed the process of counting the paper ballots will continue till late evening.