The ruling DMK and its allies notched a huge electoral victory in the recently concluded urban civic polls winning over two-thirds of the 12,800 plus ward member posts and bagging all the 21 municipal corporations in Tamil Nadu for which results were declared on Tuesday. The DMK alliance has won 178 wards in the Greater Chennai Corporation while the AIADMK… Continue reading "DMK dominates urban local body polls"
Greater Chennai Corporation and district election office has conducted training around 28,000 government staff from public sector undertakings, who have been drafted for election works, on Thursday. The training session on the day is the second such session after the poll announcement. According to the civic body, orders have been given to as many as 27,812 polling officials and details… Continue reading "Chennai Corporation and disctrict election office conducts training for 28,000 election officials"
The number of candidates contesting for the urban local body elections in Chennai has reduced as more 200 nominations were rejected by the district election office. On Saturday, the polling officials scrutinized the nominations received from candidates. As many as 3,546 nominations were received till Friday. Of the total nominations, 228 nominations have been rejected citing various reasons. Presently, 3,318… Continue reading "Election office rejects more than 200 nominations for urban local body elections in Chennai"
Filing of nomination papers for the upcoming Urban Local Body Election began today. According to SEC sources, the assistant returning officers who have recently completed the poll training process will start accepting the nomination papers from today. The nominations can be submitted from 10 am onwards and nominations will be accepted on Saturday, the last day for submitting nominations is… Continue reading "Filing of nominations for Urban Local Body polls begins today"