Patiala, December 18- Returning officers conducted the second rehearsal for voting of the election staff deployed for the general elections of Municipal Council Bhadson and Ghagga to be held on December 21 along with 45 wards of Municipal Corporation and one-time by-election of Municipal Council Rajpura, Nabha and Patran. District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Dr. Preeti Yadav reviewed this rehearsal and directed the election staff to cast votes in a transparent manner and with full responsibility.
Dr. Preeti Yadav reviewed the rehearsal conducted for wards number 30 to 45 under the leadership of Returning Officer and Assistant Commissioner (J) Richa Goyal at Government Bikram College here and directed the election staff to strictly follow the instructions of the State Election Commission. He said that as per the instructions of the Commission, the district administration is committed to conduct the entire election process in a completely free, fair, smooth, uninterrupted and independent manner.
He informed that all the polling parties will be sent to the polling stations to be determined on 20th December and their polling booths will be allotted on the same day. During this, Returning Officer-cum-RTO Naman Markan for Ward No. 1 to 14 of Municipal Corporation Patiala, along with Returning Officer and SDM Manjit Kaur for Ward No. 15 to 29 Patiala and Returning Officer and SDM Dr. Ismat Vijay Singh for Ward No. 46 to 60 Nabha also conducted a rehearsal for their election staff. 
The rehearsal for the election of election staff was held in the presence of District Revenue Officer Patiala Navdeep Singh for Nagar Panchayat Bhadason, Returning Officer SDM Samana Tarsem Chand for Nagar Panchayat Ghagga, Returning Officer SDM Pattran Ashok Kumar for one ward of Municipal Council Pattran as well as for one ward each of Rajpura and Nabha.