Chandigarh: Voting for Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections was underway in Punjab on Sunday through ballot papers at over 19,000 booths across 23 districts, the polling officials said.

The voting began at 8 a.m. and will continue till 4 p.m. The counting will take place on December 17.

A total of 1.36 crore voters are eligible to cast votes to elect representatives of 347 zones of Zila Parishads and 2,838 zones of 153 Panchayat Samitis. All major political parties, including the Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the SAD (Amritsar), are in the fray on party symbols.

Officials said there are 860 hyper-sensitive polling locations and 3,400 sensitive polling locations. Around 44,000 police personne

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