New Delhi: The elections for 280 District Development Council (DDC) constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, where polling took place in 8 phases spreading over a month, is set to yield results on Tuesday with counting of votes.
All arrangements are in place for the counting of votes for all 280 DDC and results would be declared the same day. It will be interesting to see as to who grabs lion’s share of seats as BJP and Gupkar Alliance were directly pitted against each other.
The State Election Commission (SEC) has appealed to all the political parties and contesting candidates to extend their full cooperation to all the counting staff during the counting process and added that Returning Officers will be in charge of the counting process for each DDC Constituency.
“The entire counting exercise will be monitored and recorded to achieve full transparency,” he said.
The SEC said counting of ballot papers shall be taken on a round-wise basis after proper mixing of the ballot papers of different polling stations as per prescribed procedure and counting guidelines.
“The Commission has issued detailed guidelines under the Panchayati Raj Rules 1996 and prescribed elaborate procedure on the counting of ballot papers,” he said.
Nearly a month-long DDC polls, held in eight phases in Jammu and Kashmir ended on December 19 with a total voting percentage 51 while no law-and-order incident was reported anywhere, said KK Sharma.
