गुजरात निकाय चुनाव: कांग्रेस की पहली लिस्ट जारी, 243 उम्मीदवार के नामों का ऐलान – gujarat local body elections congress first list candidates lclcn
Political activities have intensified regarding the local body elections to be held in Gujarat. In this series, Gujarat Congress has released the first list of candidates on Sunday. This first list of the party includes the names of a total of 243 candidates, which cover 7 out of 15 major municipal corporations of the state. Of these, maximum 90 candidates have been declared for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
the party has Ahmedabad Apart from this, names of candidates for Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Morbi Municipal Corporation have also been announced. However, the party has not yet declared candidates for all the seats, indicating that more lists may be released in the coming days.
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Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party has also announced the names of its 75 candidates for Surat Municipal Corporation. At the same time, Bharatiya Janata Party and Aam Aadmi Party have not yet declared their candidates for all the municipal corporations.
Election schedule and voting process
According to the state election schedule, large-scale voting will take place in Gujarat on April 26. During this period, voting will be held for 34 district panchayats, 260 taluka panchayats, 84 municipalities and 15 municipal corporations. The counting of election votes will be done on April 28.
According to the State Election Commission of Gujarat, more than 4.18 crore voters will be eligible to use their franchise for 9 thousand 992 seats in this election. This election is considered very important from the point of view of local governance in the state.
Process related to nomination and OBC reservation
These elections are being conducted under the revised rules of Other Backward Class (OBC) reservation. Due to these new rules, the process of delimitation and reorganization of wards has also been done in many districts.
Election notification will be issued on 6 April. The last date for filing nominations for the candidates has been fixed as April 11. Scrutiny of nomination papers will take place on April 13, while candidates will be able to withdraw their names till April 15. With this phase of the electoral process, the atmosphere of local body elections in Gujarat has completely heated up.
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