The nomination of Panchayat elections went over peacefully in hill state U’khand.

Chamoli: Preparations for Panchayat elections are going on its top in the state of Uttarakhand now a days. In this sequence, on July 05, 2025, the nomination process for the three-tier Panchayat General Election-2025 was done peacefully in the state. This process started on July 2 to 5 July, 2025.

In the 12 district of Uttarakhand (beside Haridwar), a total of 63,812 nomination papers have been received, showed the great enthusiasm of the people in the grassroots democracy.

On the last day of the nomination, on 5 July, a total number of 31,622 candidates filed nomination papers. According to the total nomination papers received, a total of 1,907 nominations were received for 358 posts of District Panchayat member, and 11,629 nominations were received for 2,974 posts of Area Panchayat member, and total of 22,028 nominations were received for 7,499 posts of Gram Panchayat Pradhan. A total of 28,248 nominations were received for 55,587 posts of ward Member in Gram Panchayat.

After the successful completion of the nomination process, the next phase of the election is the scrutiny of nomination papers. The work of scrutiny of all the received nomination papers will be completed by July 09, 2025. The opportunity for withdrawal of nomination has been provided for two days on July 10 and 11, 2025 respectively.

After the nomination, there is a lot of happiness and enthusiasm among the candidates fighting election on various posts of three tier panchayat election in the 12 districts of the state. Every candidate is trying to woo the public and there are also many discussions about to find out the solution of problems of the village and the area. If the electoral trend of the public is examined, the people are now showing less trust on the candidates then. The reason lies behind is that whether it is the election of Panchayats or MLA or MP, they are bored with the same type of election slogans repeatedly, but development work isn’t implemented on the ground as much as it must be done.