Civic Polls

Municipal commissioner presents MCD budget to special officer: Report

MCD Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti on Thursday presented the civic body's budget to the civic body's Special Officer, official sources said. The annual budget has to be presented by a commissioner before December 10, as per statutory requirements. The budget is eventually approved by the Leader of House in a special meeting of the House chaired by the mayor, they said. While the results of the high-stakes December 4 civic polls were announced on Wednesday, the new House is yet to be convened, and thus the city is yet to get its new mayor after the election. The civic body in Delhi had 272 wards across its three corporations -- NDMC, SDMC, and EDMC, which existed from 2012-2022 - before being reunified into a sole MCD which formally came into existence on May 22 this year. The commissioner presented the MCD budget which includes the revised budget estimate for year 2022-23 and budget estimate for 2023-24, an official source said. Since there is no House currently, the budget was pres

Bengaluru: AAP to launch signature campaign demanding BBMP elections

AAP Bengaluru unit chief lashed out at BJP "for deferring" BBMP elections

BJP top leaders hold meeting with Delhi leaders to assess poll campaign

The BJP's top leadership, including its national president J P Nadda, went into a huddle with the Delhi unit leaders to assess the party's campaign for the December 4 civic body polls in the city. Several leaders, including some Delhi BJP MPs and MLAs, said Nadda advised a "focussed, door-to-door campaign" in the coming days to reach out to voters effectively. "The BJP national president also emphasised on a well-coordinated campaign by the party's parliamentarians and legislators in Delhi," said a city BJP MP present in the meeting. During the interaction, Nadda assessed the BJP's poll readiness, he said. The meeting also discussed the BJP's prospects in the polls. Some Delhi BJP leaders claimed that the party's campaign was headed in the right direction and currently 140 to 150 of the 250 MCD seats were within reach. Apart from all BJP MPs and MLAs from Delhi, those who attended the meeting included the party's national organisation secretary B L Santosh and its city unit presid

Delhi BJP replaces presidents of 6 district units ahead of civic polls

Amid discontent over ticket distribution for the upcoming civic body polls, Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta on Tuesday replaced working presidents of the party's six districts units with immediate effect. On Monday, Gupta had appointed working presidents of six district units but the appointments were withdrawn within hours. In the latest list, three working presidents, whose name was in the first list issued on Monday, have been dropped. Party sources claimed that the move was triggered after senior leaders including party MPs expressed discontent with some of the working presidents appointed by Gupta. According to the fresh list, Sardar Kuldeep Singh has been appointed the president of Chandni Chowk, Manoj Tyagi of Navin Shahdara, Lata Gupta of Shahdara, Naresh Vashishth of Mehrauli, Vinod Sehrawat of Northwest Delhi and Ramesh Shokhanda of Najafgarh. In Monday's list, Dipak Gauba was appointed as working president of Shahdara, Azad Singh of Mehrauli and Sunil Mittal of Northwe

Delhi Nurses Federation withdraws call for mass casual leave on Nov 16

The Delhi Nurses Federation has withdrawn its call for mass casual leave on November 16 due to the model code of conduct in place ahead of the civic polls, an official said on Tuesday. The 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) goes to polls on December 4 while the results will be declared on December 7. On November 4, the Delhi Nurses Federation (DNF) announced that its members would go on a mass casual leave since its symbolic three-day strike did not yield a positive outcome. The federation held a symbolic strike from 9-11 am from November 2-4 to put forward their demands, which include regularisation of services and long-due promotions. "Due to rising cases of dengue, we have decided to take any further course of action after three weeks from now. If our mass casual leave protest doesn't move authorities to look into our demands, we will go for indefinite strike from November 30," DNF Secretary General Liladhar Ramchandani had said earlier. On Tuesday, he said, the ...

With new Parliament building to welcome MPs soon, here's what will change

In the new Parliament House, with a soft launch this winter session (the full functionality will happen in January in the budget session), papers are supposed to disappear among other things

Aam Aadmi Party releases first list of 134 candidates for Delhi civic polls

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday released the first list of 134 candidates for the high-stakes Delhi civic polls. The names were announced following a long meeting of the Political Affairs Committee of the party. The list has more than 60 women candidates. Ninety per cent of the tickets have been awarded to AAP workers working at grassroots level, the party said in a statement. More than 20,000 workers had applied to get a ticket to contest the MCD polls, it said. Earlier in the day, the party had released its list of 30 star campaigners while it's national convener Arvind Kejriwal also released the party's 10 guarantees for the polls, that included clearing the three landfill sites, corruption-free MCD, among other points. The 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) goes to polls on December 4 and the counting of votes will take place on December 7. The BJP has been in power in the MCD -- trifurcated in 2012 into north, south and east corporations and then unified this

RBI prods Indian civic bodies to issue municipal bonds for funding

India's local city governments must consider issuing municipal bonds to meet their funding requirements as the demand to ramp-up infrastructure in the Asia's third-largest economy grows

Voting for 1st phase of Madhya Pradesh civic body elections on July 6

A total of 10.4 million voters are expected to exercise their franchise in the first phase of MP urban body elections

Guwahati civic polls underway, around 30% ballots cast till 1 p.m.

Besides the ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has fielded 40 candidates, giving added importance to the polls

Razing structures in Jahangirpuri bid to win civic polls by BJP: Akhilesh

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the razing of structures in New Delhi's Jahangirpuri is an attempt by the BJP to create circumstances that help it win the civic body polls there.

Avoidable delay

MCD merger should have been done in time

Play of power, money behind the issues surrounding Delhi civic bodies

Last week, the Union Cabinet approved the reunification of the three municipal corporations of Delhi

MCD Bill: Delhi civic polls not likely before 5-6 months, say experts

The Union Cabinet had on Tuesday approved the bill to merge the three municipal corporations of Delhi

Let Delhi civic polls be held: Deputy CM Manish Sisodia dares BJP

He asserted that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is not scared of the Union government's move to merge the three corporations

Stop making childish excuses, face Delhi civic polls: Sisodia to BJP

Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia hit back and dared the saffron party to face the election instead of making "childish excuses".

TMC decimates oppn in Bengal civic polls, wins 93 of 107 municipalities

Ten months after its landslide victory in the West Bengal assembly polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress steamrolled the entire opposition in the civic elections, bagging 93 of 107 municipalities

Bengal civic poll: As TMC wins, BJP says it does not accept the result

The BJP, decimated in the just-concluded civic poll in West Bengal by the ruling TMC, said that it does not accept the result claiming the election was a "farce".

West Bengal civic polls: TMC, BJP workers clash in North 24 Parganas

A clash between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers broke out during civic polls in the state on Sunday.

Polling underway in 108 civic bodies across West Bengal amid tight security

Polling was underway for 108 civic bodies across West Bengal on Sunday morning amid tight security, officials said.