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 Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on January 4 the plea of Uttar Pradesh government challenging the Allahabad High Court order directing the State poll panel to hold urban local body elections without reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on December 27 quashed a December 5 Uttar Pradesh government order proposing reservations for OBCs in civic elections. It ordered the State Election Commission to "immediately" notify elections to the urban local bodies without OBC quotas.
On Tuesday, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court ordered the government to conduct urban body elections in UP without implementing the OBC quota.
Surjewala demanded a high-level probe in the matter and claimed a private agency named "Chilume" was authorised by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) - the urban local body of Bengaluru, to carry out a door-to-door survey of voters in the city.
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 17 (ANI): The counting is underway for the first phase of local urban body polls in Madhya Pradesh, including municipal corporations of Bhopal and Indore, began at 9 am.
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 30 (ANI): Ahead of urban local body polls, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday claimed that Indore will surpass Bengaluru and Hyderabad in terms of development, in the next 10 years, if Bharatiya Janata Party wins the elections.
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 28 (ANI): With Madhya Pradesh going to urban local body polls in July, the political fervour has started gradually spreading in the state. The candidates of the political parties have started queuing up at the renowned tailors of Indore to place their ord
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], March 27 (ANI): Senior IAS, IPS Officers and members of a number of Service Associations on Sunday, met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and congratulated him for the spectacular success of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) at the recently held panchayat and urban local b
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], March 26 (ANI): The counting of votes for the 109 urban civic body polls for three Municipal Corporations, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur, besides 47 municipalities is underway.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], March 24 (ANI): Voting for the 109 urban civic body polls for three Municipal Corporations, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur, besides 47 municipalities has begun in Odisha on Thursday.
Dispur (Assam) [India], March 6 (ANI): Denoting municipal elections as an important step towards ensuring public participation in governance, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday urged the people of the state to exercise their democratic right and cast their vote in the ongoing