Gandhinagar, April 26 (IANS) Voting for Gujarat’s local body elections began on Sunday, with polling underway across municipal corporations, municipalities, district panchayats and taluka panchayats in what is one of the state’s largest grassroots electoral exercises.Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to cast his vote around 11 a.m. at a polling station near Kameshwar Mahadev in the Naranpura area of Ahmedabad.According to official details, he will vote at the Naranpura sub-zonal offi…
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Gandhinagar, April 24 (IANS) The State Election Commission of Gujarat has confirmed that 736 seats have been won uncontested ahead of the local self-government elections scheduled for April 26. According to official data released on Friday, these unopposed victories span across all tiers of local governance, including municipal corporations, municipalities, and panchayats. In the 84 municipalities under general elections, 385 out of 2,624 seats were won uncontested.This resulted in 53 ward…
Aizawl, April 21 (IANS) Voting for the 19-member Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) commenced on Tuesday morning amid tight security arrangements, election officials said.People, including women, turned out in large numbers, forming queues at most of the 275 polling stations across the civic body urban areas.Polling began at 7 A.M. and will continue uninterrupted until 5 P.M. A total of 2.39 lakh voters, including 1.26 lakh women, are eligible to cast their votes to decide the electoral fate of …
Agartala, April 17 (IANS) The Tipra Motha Party (TMP), an ally of the ruling BJP, has retained control of the politically significant Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) by securing an absolute majority in the state’s second most important constitutional body after the Assembly. The 30-member TTAADC comprises 28 elected representatives and two members nominated by the state government and administers nearly 70 per cent of Tripura’s 10,491 sq km geographical area.The TMP…
Agartala, April 17 (IANS) Amid stringent three-tier security arrangements, the counting of votes for the crucial elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) is underway across all eight districts of the state. More than 83.52 per cent of the 9,62,697 eligible voters exercised their franchise on April 12 in the TTAADC elections, which will determine the fate of 173 candidates.A State Election Commission (SEC) official said that prohibitory orders under Section 163 o…
Agartala, April 12 (IANS) More than 81 per cent of the 9,62,697 eligible voters exercised their franchise in the politically significant elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), held across all eight districts of the state to decide the fate of 173 candidates, including eight women, officials said. The 30-member TTAADC, comprising 28 elected representatives and two members nominated by the state government, administers nearly 70 per cent of Tripura’s 10,491 sq …
Agartala, April 12 (IANS) The crucial elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) are underway across all eight districts of the state, with over 50 per cent of the 9,62,697 voters having cast their votes till noon to decide the fate of 173 candidates. The 30-member TTAADC, comprising 28 elected representatives and two members nominated by the state government, administers nearly 70 per cent of Tripura’s 10,491 sq km geographical area. This makes it a strategically…
Agartala, April 10 (IANS) More than 13,500 Central and state security personnel will be deployed to ensure the smooth conduct of the politically significant elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) scheduled for April 12, top officials said on Friday. The 30-member TTAADC, consisting of 28 elected representatives and two members nominated by the state government, administers nearly 70 per cent of Tripura’s 10,491 square km geographical area, making it a strategi…
Jaipur, April 8 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday accused the BJP-led state government of pushing Rajasthan towards a “constitutional crisis” by failing to conduct elections to Panchayats and Urban Local Bodies for over a year. In a strongly worded statement, Gehlot said the delay and the appointment of government administrators in place of elected representatives reflect an “undemocratic mindset” and amount to a direct assault on democratic institutions.“The fail…
Gandhinagar, April 7 (IANS) Gujarat BJP’s state election committee (Parliamentary Board) on Tuesday held a nearly six-hour-long meeting at the Chief Minister’s residence in Gandhinagar to deliberate on candidate selection for the upcoming local self-government elections. The meeting was held in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and state BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma.Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi was also present, along with other members of the election committee.The…