Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court decision of accepting the report of the OBC Commission constituted by the state Government which paved the way for holding the urban local body (ULB) polls in the state.
The state government had earlier notified that the general election to the ULBs with 33 per cent seat reservation for women will be held on May 16 as the nomination filing will be from April 3-10.
MLA and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) chief Shivpal Yadav made major announcements on the Samajwadi Party's strategy for the upcoming civic elections, at Prayagraj on Tuesday.
Days after the announcement of bye-election results, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State unit in Uttar Pradesh (UP) has geared up for the municipal elections with the party to hold a meeting with top functionaries to clinch victory in the local bodies elections, sources said on Saturday.
Riding on the massive victory of the Aam Aadmi Party in the Delhi civic polls, Punjab Chief Minister on Wednesday claimed that the exit polls which predicted the party's loss in Gujarat will prove to be wrong.
New Delhi [India], December 7 (ANI): Celebrations started at the Aam Aadmi Party office in the national capital after the trends showed that the party crossed the halfway mark in the Delhi Municipal Corporation elections on Wednesday.
As the initial trends in the counting of votes for the Delhi civic body polls witness of see-saw pattern, state Bharatiya Janata Party chief Adesh Gupta on Wednesday said that the people of the city will take "revenge" for Arvind Kejriwal's corruption and betrayal and added that his party
The BJP maintained its lead over the Aam Aadmi Party in the initial trends of the counting of votes on the 250 wards of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections.
The counting of votes for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) election will be held on Wednesday to decide the winner of the high-stakes civic polls where the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) face each other.
In what could be termed a lukewarm response to a high-pitched campaign by the AAP and the BJP for the Delhi civic polls, the overall voter turnout on Sunday was only about 30 per cent, a marginal improvement from an even poorer turnout of 18 per cent till 12 noon and just 9 per cent till