Suresh Bhardwaj on Wednesday lambasted the state government for overturning the previous BJP government's decision to delimit Shimla Municipal Corporation wards and said that the Congress government's decision is politically motivated ignoring the public interest.
Senior MQM-P leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui stated that his party will quit the coalition government if the local body elections were held without conducting fresh delimitations of the constituency.
There are fears in Assam that the delimitation process may give birth to additional constituencies in districts where population explosion has been rampant in the past few decades.
Jakir Hussain Sikdar may lose his own constituency due to delimitation provided the delimitation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies of Assam are carried out as per the 2007 draft.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday postponed the local government elections scheduled for December 31 in Islamabad, reported Geo News.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday said it has initiated the process for delimitation of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies in Assam.
The names of 450 voters in Subash Mohalla ward in the national capital have been deleted from the voters' list because they support BJP, said BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Sunday and appealed for cancellation of this polls and to conduct re-election.
Delhi winter affects the voting trends in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections as only around 9 per cent of voters' turnout was recorded till 10:30 am on Sunday, as per the State Election Commission.
After casting his vote for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections on Sunday, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the polls are a wake-up call for Delhi.