The DMK and its allies had a landslide victory in the district panchayat unions winning 138 of the 140 seats and it performed exceedingly well in the panchayat unions as well as village panchayats.
The nine districts that are going for rural local body polls are Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Vellore, Tirupattur, Ranipet, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Tirunelveli and Tenkasi.
The elections are going to be the first test for Bommai as Belagavi, Kalburgi, and Hubballi-Dharwad corporations are located in the north Karnataka region, considered as the BJP bastion.
The voting will take place on 18 November and results will be declared on 20 November.
Amid reports that the local body elections are likely to be deferred, Pradesh Congress Committee chief GA Mir asked Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday to clear the government’s stand on the issue.
Mufti’s announcement comes days after the National Conference (NC) chief and MP Farooq Abdullah had announced that his party would contest all elections in the state until the centre cleared its stand on the Article 35-A.
Two persons were killed and nearly a dozen injured in Nagaland late on Tuesday night following clashes between the police…
