Overview

• Sub-Divisional Magistrate Anurag Arya has directed a recount of votes cast in the Tarkuli gram panchayat head election to be completed within 30 days.
• Election officials are expected to set and announce the date for the vote review in the coming days.
• The recount follows Kajal Bisht’s petition after she was wrongly declared the winner despite polling 103 votes against Sumit Kumar’s 106.
• Bisht voluntarily notified authorities of the three-vote discrepancy and sought correction before taking legal recourse.
• The dispute underscores the importance of legal oversight in local governance, given Tarkuli’s location within Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s assembly constituency.