Punjab Panchayat polls to be held by May next year

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Press Trust of India Chandigarh
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 6:29 AM IST

The polls are scheduled for May 15 and 31, 2013, an official release said here today.

For the first time in Punjab, panchayat elections will be held through wards, and every ward would elect its panch, while sarpanchs will be elected through direct polls

Strict instructions to the officials to complete demarcation process of the ward for the elections by January 31, 2013, have been issued, it said.

  

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First Published: Nov 20 2012 | 8:05 PM IST