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Urban local body polls: Election dates, nominations and other details here
The elections for the 21 Corporations, 138 Municipalities and 490 Town panchayats will be held in one phase.
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Tamil Nadu State Election Commissioner V Palanikumar on Wednesday announced the poll schedule for the urban local body polls in Tamil Nadu.Â
Here are the latest updates from the poll body:Â
1) The polling for all local bodies will be on February 19 and the counting of votes will be on February 22.
2) Nominations will start on January 28 and the last day for withdrawal of nomination will be February 4.Â
3) Scrutiny of nominations will be the next daty TNSEC commissioner said.Â
4) Indirect polls for Mayors will be on March 4.
5) The Tamil Nadu State Election Commission (TNSEC) had announced Model Code of Conduct with immediate effect for 21 municipal corporations, 138 municipalities and 489 town panchayats.
6) TNSEC in September 2016 announced the notification for poll schedule for local bodies, but the polls were held four years later only for rural local bodies.Â
7) Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Vellore, Tiruchy, Salem and other cities in Tamil Nadu will soon have elected Mayors after a span of six years.
8) For four years (2017 -2022) the High Court and the Supreme Court engaged the petitions filed by the DMK and the AIADMK regarding civic polls.
9) The AIADMK government in 2018 said that there was a red alert for Tamil Nadu due to cyclone Gaja and delayed the civic polls.Â
10) Earlier delimitation and reservation exercises were attributed for the delay in polls. Since 2020, pandemic also added to the list, even as Lok Sabha and State Assembly polls were held as per schedule.
11) Earlier this week a majority of 11 recognised political parties in Tamil Nadu favoured single-phase polling for the urban local bodies elections.
12) It may be noted that the senior BJP functionary Karu Nagarajan who attended the recent all party meeting at TNSEC headquarters demanded deployment of Central police forces in Tamil Nadu for the local body polls.
13) Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Director of Municipal Administration P. Ponniah, Commissioner of Town Panchayats R. Selvaraj have already passed orders to local bodies to keep the voters roll and polling booths ready.
14) The 21 municipal corporations consist 1,064 wards, 138 municipalities consist 3,468 and 8,288 wards in 489 town panchayats.
Earlier, the Madras High Court cleared the decks to hold the elections saying it cannot go against the Supreme Court's direction while hearing a plea, seeking to postpone the election, moved by Dr M Nakkeeran.Â
Nakkeeran said considering the prevailing third Covid wave in the State it is not advisable to hold elections at this juncture. The high court was hearing the case for two days on a row, and has asked the SEC to conduct elections as per the SC direction and gave the assurance that any irregularities in the election procedure can be brought to the notice of the court.
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