Bhatkal: Bhatkal Jali Pattan Panchayat will go to the polls on December 27 for the second term after it was upgraded from the gram panchayat.

The Tanzeem-backed candidates had been elected to power in the panchayat in the last election. The council of the panchayat has a total of 20 seats (wards). The BJP and the Congress have fielded their candidates in seven seats, while the Tanzeem back Independent candidates are nearly from 6 wards.

Total seven wards members have been elected unopposed. In the last election held after it was upgraded as pattan panchayat, the BJP had bagged two seats, the Congress three and Independents had bagged 15 seats.

The open campaigning for the polls came to an end on Saturday.