Local government by-polls set for April 25

List of cleared candidates to be issued on March 25

PESHAWAR:

The local bodies’ election for vacant chairmen seats in different Union Councils of the province has been scheduled for April 25.

According to the schedule, the elections will be held in the Drosh (Chitral), Tangi (Charsadda), Draband (Dera Ismail Khan), Katlang (Mardan), Dasu (Kohistan) and Balambat (Lower Dir) Union Councils. Public notices for the election will be issued by the returning officers on March 15 while the candidates can submit their nomination papers from March 18 to 20.

The by-election schedule said lists of candidates submitting nomination papers to contest the elections would be released on March 21 while scrutiny of their papers would be carried out from March 22 to 24.

Lists of cleared candidates are to be issued on March 25 while appeals against the acceptance or rejection of nomination papers would be heard from March 26 to 28. Decisions on the appeals would be announced on April 2.

Candidates can withdraw their nomination papers until April 4 while final lists of the contesting candidates and their election symbols would be issued on April 5.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 17^th, 2024.