IAS officers have been appointed as election observers for the 9 missing local government elections in Tamil Nadu next month.
Local elections should have been held in Tamil Nadu in the year 2016 itself. But local elections were not held until about three years later.
This paralyzed many tasks that had to be carried out by local bodies. Similarly, crores of funds sent by the Central Government to Tamil Nadu were returned.
Local elections
The local elections were held in 2019 following the Supreme Court’s condemnation of the local elections. In addition, rural and urban local elections were not held in the 9 newly formed districts. Sept. in those 9 districts missing. The court had directed that the rural local elections should be held and completed by the 15th.
9 districts
The announcement of the rural local elections in the 9 districts that were left out in this context was made last week. It has been announced that local government elections will be held in Tamil Nadu on October 6 and 9 in two phases. The counting of votes will take place on October 12. Candidature for this started on the 15th. Those who want to contest the election will come Sept. Nominations can be submitted till the 22nd.
Election observers
In this situation, IAS officers have been appointed as observers in 9 district rural local elections. Accordingly, Amuthavalli for Kanchipuram district, Sampath for Chengalpattu district and Palanisamy for Villupuram district have been appointed as election observers. Similarly, Vivekanandan has been appointed for Kallakurichi district, Vijayaraj Kumar for Vellore district, Madhumati for Ranipettai district and Kamaraj for Tirupati district.
When to start
Jayakanthan for Nellai district and Po Shankar for Tenkasi district have been appointed as election observers. It has been announced that 9 of them will go to their respective districts on the last day of filing nominations (Sep 22) and start monitoring the elections. They will monitor the regular conduct of rural local elections.
Urban local elections
With the dates of the rural local elections announced, it is expected that the urban local elections will be held soon. It is said that urban local elections will be held early next year.
DTV Happy ..! In the local elections .. Cooker back to Aam Aadmi Party .. Will he whistle this time?
Chennai: With the announcement of rural local elections for the 9 missing districts, the cooker symbol has been allotted to the Amma People’s Progressive League.
Out of the 9 missing districts in Tamil Nadu – Vellore, Tirunelveli, Villupuram, Tenkasi, Tirupattai, Ranipettai, Kallakurichi, Chengalpattu, Kanchipuram – 9 local government elections will be held in two phases on October 6 and 9.
Candidature filing for this election is in full swing from September 15. In two days alone, 13,542 people filed nominations.
cooker logo
In each election, the Election Commission allocates symbols to parties other than the recognized political parties. AIADMK general secretary DTV Dhinakaran had filed a petition with the Election Commission seeking the Kuker logo. The Human Rights Commission has assigned the Kuker logo to the Amma People’s Progressive League in the 9 district rural local elections that were missed in this situation.
Past tenses
Earlier, in the RK Nagar by-election after Jayalalithaa’s demise, DTV, which had contested independently under the Kuker symbol, won by beating AIADMK’s Madhusudan. In that election he was assigned the Cooker logo. Similarly, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and the by-elections for 21 constituencies, it was expected that the Aam Aadmi Party would be allotted the Kuker symbol.
021 Election
Cook had also applied to the Election Commission for the logo. But they were assigned the gift box logo. At the same time, in the assembly elections held in April, the Kuker symbol was again allotted to Aam Aadmi Party. The AIADMK, which had formed alliances with some parties, including the Majlis, lost all the constituencies.
will DTV win this time?
DTV Dhinakaran, who contested in at least Kovilpatti constituency, was expected to win. But, DTV Dhinakaran lost by a margin of about 12 thousand votes. Meanwhile, in the rural local elections, the Kuker symbol has been allotted to Amamuga. DTV is forced to get at least a minimal victory in this election. Otherwise his political future will be in question.
