In photos: Punjab gears up for municipal elections

Elections to five municipal corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Phagwara and 44 municipal councils and nagar panchayats in Punjab will be held on December 21.

Voting for the elections is scheduled for December 21 from 7 am to 4 pm. Results are expected to start trickling in within an hour of end of the polling.

An official spokesperson of the commission said a special leave would be granted to government employees and other workers who are voters of these municipal bodies but employed elsewhere according to rules.

In addition, a holiday would be declared in all the schools whose buildings are being used for election purposes, said the spokesperson.

December 21 has been declared as a 'Dry Day' in the revenue jurisdiction of the municipal bodies that are going to the polls.

The spokesperson further said Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, Punjabi University Patiala, and Panjab University, Chandigarh have informed that they have postponed all annual and semester exams which were scheduled to be held on December 21.

 Photos by: Photos by Rajesh Sachar (Patiala), Vishal Kumar (Amritsar) and Himanshu Mahajan (Ludhiana).