Tamilnadu Election Update: Today is the last day to withdraw nominations as the urban local body elections in Tamil Nadu are heating up.
Tamilnadu Localbody Election Update : Today is the last day to file nominations in the urban local government elections in Tamil Nadu.
Following the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu at the beginning of last year, rural local government elections were held for the 9 missing districts at the end of the year. Following this, amid great anticipation among the political parties as to when the urban local government elections will be held, it was announced that the local government elections will be held on February 19 in a single phase across Tamil Nadu.
Across Tamil Nadu, 1064 Municipal Councilors (21 Corporations), 3468 Municipal Councilors (138 Municipalities) and 8288 Municipal Councilors (490 Municipalities) will go to the polls on the 19th for a total of 12820 posts. Candidature filing for this election, which will be held in a single phase across Tamil Nadu, started on the 29th.
Following this, many party candidates in politics, as well as independent candidates, filed nominations to contest the urban local elections. With the completion of nominations on the 4th of last month, 74416 candidates have filed their nominations so far, the nominations were considered on the 5th of last month. Following this, today is the last day to withdraw the nomination.
It has been announced that the candidates who have decided to withdraw their nominations will be able to withdraw their petitions by 5 pm today and the final list of candidates for the urban local elections will be released this evening. Following the release of the final list of candidates, the candidates are intensifying their campaign in their respective constituencies.
It has also been announced that symbols for independent candidates will be allotted along with the final list of candidates. Thus, the Tamil Nadu constituency has begun to heat up for the urban local government elections.
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