1,047 Panchayats To Go To Polls In 3rd Phase of Jharkhand Rural Elections

A total of 12,912 polling booths have been set up for the third phase. Of them, 6,021 have been declared sensitive and 3,804 hypersensitive.

A total of 1,047 panchayats covering 70 blocks in 19 districts of Jharkhand will go to polls in the third of the four-phase panchayat polls on Tuesday, election officials said on Monday.

More than 46.94 lakh voters, including 22.86 lakh women, are entitled to decide the political fate of 27,343 candidates.

Panchayat elections in Jharkhand are not held on party lines.

In the third phase, elections were scheduled to be held for 15,376 posts - 12,911 panchayat members, 1,047 mukhiyas, 1,290 panchayat committee representatives and 128 Zilla Parishad members.