Tag: Local bodies

Regularise contractual workers: CM Kejriwal to local bodies

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday asked Urban Development Minister Satyendar Jain to direct local bodies to regularise the services of all contractual sanitation workers. Later, the assembly also passed a resolution in this regard by a voice vote. Kejriwal told the House that five sanitation workers of local bodies had been sitting on …

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April 4, 2018

Congress pockets local bodies in Rajasthan

The Congress won the local body by-elections in Rajasthan with a comfortable margin beating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state which goes to polls at the end of the year. The Congress secured wins in four of the six zila parishad seats, 12 of the 21 panchayat samiti seats and four of …

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March 8, 2018

Meerut mayor polls: Stalwarts’ luck at stake

The prestige of heavyweights of different political parties is at stake in this election for local bodies, particularly on the seat of Mayor of Nagarnigum of Meerut, which will take place on 22 November. This local body election will surely prove to be a litmus test for the leading political parties and their prominent leaders. …

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November 15, 2017

Bengal Congress chief accuses Mamata

Accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of autocratic rule, state Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday said her party Trinamool Congress used "coercion" to retain control of local bodies in Murshidabad district. Chowdhury was addressing the media a day after the Congress lost control of Baharampur Municipality — till now considered Chowdhury’s pocket …

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September 19, 2016