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Raj Civic Polls: Notification for election of mayors/chairpersons issued, poll result on 9 seats of 4 bodies withheld; repoll at 10 polling booths

Jaipur, Sep 15 (UNI) The Rajasthan State Election Commission today issued a notification for the election of Mayors and/ or Chairpersons in 305 of total 309 civic bodies that went to polls on September 9 and 11 last week.
However, the electoral process for electing mayors/ deputy mayors or chairpersons/ deputy chairpersons has been deferred in the 4 civic bodies-- the Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota Municipal Corporations and the Suket Municipal Committee in the Kota district due to withholding of the results for facilitating repoll at some booths.
With issuance of notification, the proess of filing nominations for mayors/chairpersons began today and will remain open until 3 pm tomorrow afternoon, a State Election Commission spokesperson said here.
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