Counting of votes for the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections in Punjab was underway on Wednesday even as the ruling AAP claimed it registered victories in more than 900 zones.

Waiver is not to be granted as a matter of course, but only where the court is satisfied that the circumstances of exceptional hardship to the petitioner.

Mohan Bhagwat met Vice President C P Radhakrishnan at the Vice-President’s Enclave. Radhakrishnan, from Tamil Nadu, also has roots in the RSS.