The last panchayat polls in Jammu and Kashmir were held in 2011. The urban local body elections have not been held for nearly eight years.
In January-February 2005, the municipal elections were last conducted and the elected bodies had completed their five-year term in March 2010.
Elections are being watched with keen interest in political circles as their results are likely to throw up new leadership equations among parties, especially the BJP, at the local level.
The process of voting to elect representatives to three municipal corporations and 29 municipal councils and Nagar Panchayats started at 8 am and will end at 4 pm. The results will be declared on Sunday evening.
The third and last phase will be held on November 29 followed by counting of votes on December 1.
The Chief Minister alleged that under previous state governments, there were "riots every week" and they had failed to nab rioters and curb organised crime.
BJP today came out with its 'Sankalp Patra' or election manifesto ahead of urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress, which forged an alliance in run up to the 2017 UP state polls, have decided to contest these elections separately.
Madras High Court today directed the Tamil Nadu State Election Commission to complete the local body elections by November 17.
BJP on Monday swept the civic polls in Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC), the polling for which was conducted yesterday.
The election results were indicative of a paradigm shift in the state politics with the BJP emerging as the main challenger to the TMC, according to poll watchers
Trinamool Congress today won four municipal bodies in the West Bengal civic polls while GJM captured three civic bodies including Darjeeling.
Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde today offered to quit the Devendra Fadnavis-led government after BJP's poor performance in the local body polls in Beed district.
BJP on Monday emerged as the major gainer in the first phase of municipal council polls winning 39 municipal chief's posts of the 147 urban local bodies.
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