35,000 to cast votes, 123 in fray in Una

UNA, JANUARY 8

As many as 35,509 urban voters living in three municipal committees and an equal number of nagar panchayats in Una district will exercise their franchise on Sunday to elect a total of 48 members to the urban bodies.

Addressing media persons here today, Deputy Commissioner Raghav Sharma said elections will be held at the municipal committees of Una, Mehatpur and Santoshgarh besides nagar panchayats of Gagret, Daulatpur Chowk and Tahliwal. He said of the total 50 wards in the six urban bodies, elections to ward number 7 in Gagret and ward number 4 in Daulatpur Chowk Nagar Panchayats have already been concluded unanimously.

The DC informed that a total of 51 polling stations will be set up, of which 30 have been declared as hyper sensitive and 12 sensitive, where security arrangements as per protocol will be made to ensure conduct of free and fair elections.

In all, 123 candidates are in fray as the time for canvassing ended today at 4 pm. On the day of polling, candidates and their supporters will not be allowed to put up stalls or display election symbols and election material within 100 meters of the polling station and doing so will be a punishable office. — OC