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Mumbai: Voting for civic body polls across Maharashtra, including Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai, will be held on January 15, the State Election Commission announced on Monday. Polling will take place in 29 municipal corporations. Counting of votes is scheduled for January 16. Around 3.48 crore voters are eligible to take part in the civic polls.
Several of these municipal corporations have been under administrative rule for a long period due to delays in conducting elections. In most cases, administrators have been in charge for over three years, while in some cities the period has stretched beyond six years.
Last month, the Supreme Court gave permission to the State Election Commission to go ahead with the municipal corporation elections. This includes two corporations where the reservation limit has crossed the 50 per cent ceiling.
The two corporations are Chandrapur and Nagpur. Both have crossed the reservation cap, and the results in these cities will remain subject to the final decision in petitions that are currently pending before the Supreme Court.
State Election Commissioner Waghmare said voters whose names appear on electoral rolls at more than one location have been marked with two stars. He said the commission is contacting such voters and asking them to give an undertaking that they will cast their vote in only one ward.
