Speaking in the legislative assembly, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, "we will have to approach court to get MCD elections conducted on time and we will do it."
The nomination process will commence on May 30 and the last date for filing nominations will be June 4. The scrutiny of nominations will be done on June 6 while the last date for the withdrawal of candidature will be June 7.
The MCD was trifurcated in 2012 during Congress leader Sheila Dikshit's tenure as the chief minister. It is now reunified by merging the three civic bodies - North, South and East municipal corporations.
The counting of votes for the GMC election began at Moniram Dewan Trade Centre, Guwahati from 8:00 am.
BJP, Congress are at loggerheads after North Delhi Municipal Corporation rolled out bulldozers to demolish illegal construction and encroachment in Delhi's Jahangirpuri.
In this election, a total of 757 polling stations have been set up out of which 80 polling stations will be conducted exclusively by women polling officials.
YSR Congress, AIADMK, Tamil Maanila Congress supported the bill. The BJD supported the bill with the condition that the corporation elections are not deferred and the BSP sought some amendments and relief for workers in the bill.
The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, was piloted in Rajya Sabha by Home Minister Amit Shah and passed by Parliament on Tuesday. Lok Sabha had passed the bill, which seeks to amend the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act of 1957, on March 30.
The decision to merge the three MCDs into one was approved last week on Tuesday by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Of the four, Asansol is the largest municipal corporation with 106 seats, followed by Siliguri with 47, Chandannagar with 33 and Bidhannagar with 41 wards.
A total of 5, 94,772 voters are eligible to cast their votes in the civic poll and the number of women voters outnumber male voters in urban areas.
The Deputy Mayor further said that the process of implementing the rule will be issued after discussing with stakeholders.
This union has been formed by merging other 18 unions. According to the union, there are about 1.5 lakh employees in all three corporations, while there are 55,000 pensioners.
Ministers Arup Roy, Rathin Ghosh, Sujit Basu and others were removed from the posts of administrators of various municipalities, Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said.
Three men were arrested for allegedly posing as MCD officers and extorting money from shopkeepers in east Delhi’s Mansarovar Park area.
Of them, 19 have already been administered both doses of Covishield vaccine at 2 designated centres in Bhubaneswar, an official said.
Doctors and other employees of the civic bodies are not getting their salaries due to "mismanagement and corruption in MCD (municipal corporations of Delhi)", the Aam Aadmi Party leader alleged.
Goa's 11 municipal councils and one municipal corporation will go to polls on March 20, State Election Commissioner Chokha Ram Garg said on Monday.
According to MCG officials, the authorities are linking government schemes and services with the family ID card (parivar pehchan patra) as residents will have to enroll for it to avail the services.
Local shop owners in Sadar Bazar area of Haryana's Gurugram claimed that Municipal Corporation issued them hefty fines and sealed their shops.
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