Dates For Bypolls To 13,000 Panchayat Seats In Jammu and Kashmir Soon economictimes.indiatimes.com

The government may announce the dates around October 9, when the ongoing Back-to-Village programme—in which the bureaucrats visit villages to address the public grievances at the door step— is likely to end. This would be the first electoral exercise in J&K after August 5, 2019, when the special status of J&K was abrogated and the state was split into two UTs.