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"I sought blessings for myself, my family and above all for the people of Assam," she told reporters.

Elections are being held in 8,235 seats, where the BJP has fielded 8,161 candidates, the Congress-7,778, the Aam Aadmi Party-2,090, among others, said the SEC.

These municipal wards are Rohini-C, Shalimar Bagh (North), Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri and Chauan Banger.

Says 1.32 lakh vacancies were filled in just 6 years against 24,000 during 10-year Cong regime in united AP

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is also scheduled to cast his vote at a booth in Naranpura area of Ahmedabad.

The election is being held in 12 mandals of Machilipatnam revenue division in Krishna district for 196 Sarpanch posts and 1,440 ward members.

GHMC Commissioner DS Lokesh Kumar said 5.60 lakh voters had enrolled for the elections

The electoral process was stopped midway in March 2020 due to coronavirus pandemic.

Though the elections were to be held for 3,328 Panchayat sarpanchs, 539 have been unanimously elected while no nomination was filed for three villages.

Following the appeal from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party, the oath taking ceremony was conducted as a group and not for individual candidates.

The election for Mayor and Deputy Mayor is expected to begin around 12.30 pm on Thursday, senior GHMC officials said.

The first phase of polling recorded 84.23 per cent voting.

The polls will be conducted in four phases till February 21 with the first first one being held on Tuesday.

The polling to the civic bodies in 20 districts of the state started at 8 am and will continue till 5 pm, A spokesperson of the State Election Commission said 48.89 per cent polling was recorded till 1 pm.

He made the announcement at the ninth National Council meeting of the Aam Aadmi Party.

The gram panchayat election will be held in four phases beginning February 5.

The government has been raising objections regarding local body elections including gram panchayat polls. The government has said that the officials would be engaged in the vaccination programme

The process has been due since September last year but postponed twice citing the Covid-19 pandemic

Palestine's official news agency WAFA said in an official statement on Saturday that Abbas welcomes what came in Hamas's letter about ending division, building partnership, and accomplishing national unity.

As per the GHMC Act, the first meeting after general elections of Municipal Corporation will be held within a month of the publication of names of elected candidates in the gazette by SEC