Since, all the political parties in the state have taken the Panchayat elections very serious, unlike previous time, huge number of nominations were filed this time and also proportionately rejected. The returning officers have rejected 12,071 nominations of Sarpanch candidates and 23,238 nominations for ward members.

Majority of the nominations were rejected for not filling the columns of the forms, rest of them due to non-submission of declaration forms related to their income, property, cast and property tax receipts etc. After scrutiny of nominations, total 1, 16,934 aspirants are remained in the Sarpanch post-race and 5, 43,208 candidates for ward member-posts.

However, the exact number of contestants will be known only after the withdrawing of nominations on 17th by the dummy candidates.