https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=64650 A voter turnout of just over 30 percent was recorded mid-afternoon in Punjab's zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections covering thousands of zones and over 9,000 candidates, with 18,224 polling stations and extensive police and observer deployment. Multiple complaints affecting electoral integrity were reported: alleged booth capturing, clashes and stone-pelting, an accusation that a presiding officer cast fake votes and was replaced, and social-media postings of ballot papers before polling claimed to breach the model code of conduct; polling was suspended in select villages after a ballot printing error and some villages boycotted voting over administrative realignment. en-us Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:01:03 +0530 Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:01:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=64650 A voter turnout of just over 30 percent was recorded mid-afternoon in Punjab's zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections covering thousands of zones and over 9,000 candidates, with 18,224 polling stations and extensive police and observer deployment. Multiple complaints affecting electoral integrity were reported: alleged booth capturing, clashes and stone-pelting, an accusation that a presiding officer cast fake votes and was replaced, and social-media postings of ballot papers before polling claimed to breach the model code of conduct; polling was suspended in select villages after a ballot printing error and some villages boycotted voting over administrative realignment. News - Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:01:03 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=64650