Haryana civic polls 2020: About 60% voting reported, elections held amid tight security

Polling for Panchkula, Ambala and Sonipat municipal corporations is under way. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates:
* A voting percentage of nearly 60 was recorded as polling remained peaceful in the elections to municipal bodies in Haryana on Sunday, which were held amid tight security and adherence to the norms in place in view of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.
* Panchkula reports 42.5 per cent voting.
* Total votes: 18,57,08; Votes polled: 72,175; Voting percentage: 38.9%
* Voting in Panchkula till 5.30 pm
Total votes: 18,57,08; Votes polled: 63,334; Voting percentage : 34.1%
* Covid positive patients will cast their votes now till 5.30 pm. Wearing PPE kit is mandatory for them.
* Till 4.30pm Panchkula received 61,850 votes with poll percentage at 33.3.
* 33.2 per cent voting recorded in Panchkula.
* Haryana state election commissioner Dr Dalip Mishra inspected 25 polling booths in Panchkula

* Aam Aadmi Party Panchkula president Surinder Rathi after casting vote with family.

* 25.7 per cent voting recorded in Panchkula
* 15 per cent polling in Panchkula so far.
* Poll percentage till 11.30am: Ambala 10, Panchkula 10.2, Sonipat 8.4, Rewari 14, Sampla 31.1, Dharuhera 18.6, Uklana 15.9
* Former Union minister and Haryana Janchetna party supremo Venod Sharma and his Mayoral candidate wife Shakti Rani Sharma cast their vote at a polling booth in Ambala city

* Panchkula witnesses 4.5 per cent polling so far
* BJP Mayoral candidate Kulbhushan Goyal exercised his franchise at a polling booth in Sector-6
* Haryana assembly speaker Gian Chand Gupta casted his vote with his wife at Sector-17, Panchkula
* Congress mayoral candidate Upinder Kaur Ahluwalia casts her vote at Fatehpur village in Panchkula
*Former deputy CM Chander Mohan after casting his vote said, "I have given my vote for the happiness and development of Panchkula."
* Voting under way for Panchkula, Ambala and Sonipat municipal corporations
*As per the schedule, polling will be held from 8am to 5.30pm December 27, the results of which will be declared on December 30.
*The voting will be held for the Ambala, Panchkula and Sonipat municipal corporations; Rewari municipal council and municipal committees of Sampla in Rohtak, Dharuhera in Rewari and Ukalana in Hisar districts.
*The stage is set for a direct fight between the BJP-JJP combine and the Congress. Earlier this month, the Indian National Lok Dal had announced to boycott the municipal polls in protest against the 'atrocities' allegedly committed on farmers by the Centre and the state's BJP-JJP governments.
*The general elections for posts of mayor and members of all the wards of Ambala, Panchkula and Sonipat municipal corporations, the president and members of municipal council of Rewari, and members of the municipal committee of Sampla (Rohtak), Dharuhera (Rewari) and Ukalana (Hisar) will be held today.