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Delhi municipal elections on December 4, counting on December 7: Poll panel
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections will be held December on 4, while the counting of votes will be done on December 7, announced state election commissioner for Delhi Vijay Dev on Friday.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections will be held December on 4, while the counting of votes will be done on December 7, announced state election commissioner for Delhi Vijay Dev on Friday.
The Model Code of Conduct comes into force in the national capital from Friday itself, he said.
"Voting for the municipal polls in Delhi will be held on December 4 while the results will be announced on December 7. The filing of nominations will begin from November 7 and the last date for the same is November 14," Dev said at a press conference.
The focus shifted to the commission and the preparations for holding municipal elections after the completion of the delimitation. The polls were abruptly postponed in March this year when the Centre announced the civic bodies will be merged. A unified MCD came into being in May.
The elections were originally scheduled to be held in April 2022. On March 9, the commission called a press conference to announce the schedule before announcing the Centre has sent a note on unifying the three civic bodies.
Parliament passed a law to unify the three municipal corporations, which also mandated a reduction in the number of wards from 272 wards to 250 wards, prompting the delimitation exercise. The exercise was completed on October 17.
The commission has appointed election officers and fixed the expenditure limit over the last week as part of preparations for the elections. An official said all the 56,000 electronic voting machines have been rechecked and resealed for use.
The commission on November 1 finalised the list of polling stations. Officials said there will be 13,667 polling stations with an upper limit of 1,500 voters each.
The Congress has filed a petition in Delhi high court against the delimitation order, calling it flawed and biased.
The court has asked the Centre, the Delhi government, and the Centre-appointed delimitation panel for their responses to the plea against the final report on the demarcation of municipal wards.
Delhi Congress chief Anil Kumar, the petitioner, submitted the formula adopted for the exercise was “wholly, arbitrary, irrational, unintelligible, confusing and suffered from various legal infirmities”.
The court will hear the matter next on December 14.
Municipal wards in Delhi will have 40,000-89,000 voters with seats spread across 24 assembly constituencies undergoing major changes in terms of name and size.
The Union home ministry accepted and notified the final delimitation report through two notifications on October 17, paving the way for holding municipal elections in Delhi.
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