nagpur rural areas of the district are all set for zilla parishad zp and panchayat samiti ps elections on tuesday counting will take place on wednesday at 13 tehsil headquartersin view of the prevailing fluid political situation the prestige of cabinet ministers anil deshmukh and sunil kedar and bjp leaders nitin gadkari and devendra fadnavis is at stakenagpur zp has 58 circles or seats while there are 116 ps seats there are 1828 polling booths for the election out of these 182 centres have been declared as model ones there are about 1419 lakh voters eligible to cast vote during the polling to be held between 730 am and 530pmout of the 58 zp circles 10 are reserved for sc seven for st and 16 for obcs leaving 25 seats for general category in all these categories 50 seats are reserved for women thus there are 29 seats for the fairer sex there are 270 candidates in the fray for these seats while 497 candidates are contesting the ps pollsthirteen tehsildars have been appointed as assistant returning officers aros for their respective areas a total 225 zones have been created for 58 circles in all 2012 control units and 4024 ballot units will be used in the election while 10 machines have been kept ready for replacing faulty ones if any there will be no vvpats in these electionscongress and ncp have a prepoll alliance for these elections congress is contesting 42 zp seats while ncp is fighting on 16 congress candidates are in the fray in 97 ps seats while the corresponding figure for ncp is 19 shiv sena and bjp are contesting separately sena has not fielded its candidates in a couple of seats apparently to help congressncp candidates vanchit bahujan aghadi vba has fielded candidates at 20 zp seats while 13 prahar candidates are also in the fraydeshmukh kedar fadnavis gadkari senasupporter mla ashish jaiswal and others have campaigned extensively for these elections before the earlier body was dissolved bjp had 21 members sena eight congress 19 ncp seven and smaller parties three bjp and sena had ruled the bodies with the help of smaller parties this time though an alliance between congress ncp and sena is expected and bjp has little chance of retaining power