The influx of nearly 3.2 million migrant workers following Covid-19 lockdown notwithstanding, Uttar Pradesh is gearing up for the three-tier panchayat elections towards the end of this year. Held to be the world’s largest local-body polls, more than 120 million people are eligible to elect the members of nearly 59,000 panchayats.
The term of the current elected bodies at the village-, block-, and district-levels will expire on December 26. ALSO READ: One in every 22 active Covid cases globally is in India; vaccine update Although these elections are not contested on ...
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First Published: Sun, June 21 2020. 17:01 IST
