Civil society elections will be held in Punjab by the end of December

Elections to five municipal corporations and 42 municipal councils and nagar panchayats in Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Patiala and Phagwara will be held by the end of December.

A notification in this regard was issued by local government additional chief secretary Tejvir Singh on Thursday evening. The notification did not specify any specific date for the elections.

Elections will also be held by the end of December in several districts of the municipal corporations of Bathinda, Batala (Gurdaspur), Hoshiarpur and Fazilka (Abohar), where by-elections are planned to be held for various reasons.

It is learned that a notice file was pending with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who cleared the matter on Friday, following which the notice was issued.

The state election commission has already announced the revision program of voter rolls. Elections to Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Phagwara municipal corporations and various municipal councils were postponed for two-three years.

After the claims and objections are resolved by December 3, the final publication of the voter rolls will be completed on December 7.

Recently, while hearing a petition challenging the Punjab government’s high court order asking the state to announce its election schedule within 15 days, the Supreme Court had directed Punjab to notify municipal elections in the state within two weeks and complete the entire process within eight weeks. notification.