Bihar Nagar Nikay Chunav Voting HIGHLIGHTS: 2nd-Phase Polling Ends Amid Sporadic Violence
Bihar Nagar Nikay Chunav 2022 voting for the second phase has concluded. Isolated incidents of violence and bribery were reported from some areas.
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Background
Bihar Municipal Election Phase 2: The voting for the second phase of the Bihar municipal election is being held today with candidates fighting for the 68 wards. The results will be declared on Friday, 30th December.
Voting is being done across 17 municipal corporations including Patna, 2 Municipal Councils, and 49 Nagar Panchayats in a total of 68 cities of 23 districts of Bihar. The voting will continue till 5 PM. Tight security arrangements have been made at the polling booths for the smooth conduct of the election process.
In this phase, the fate of 11,127 candidates for Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Chief Councillor, Ward Councilor, and 1665 other posts will be sealed in EVMs. The counting of votes for the second phase of the municipal elections will be held on Friday and then the results will be released on the same day.
7088 booths have been made for the election. This is the first time when the voters in the state will be directly electing the chief councilor and deputy chief councilor.
The first phase of the polls was held on 18th December for 156 municipal corporation wards. The results were declared on December 20.
SC Decision On Bihar Nagar Nigam Election
The municipal polls were earlier scheduled to be held on October 10 and 20. However, it got delayed after the Patna High Court, in its order, said that the reservations of extremely backward castes and (EBC)/ Other Backward Class (OBC) in the ensuing urban local bodies (ULB) polls in Bihar are "illegal".
The court held that quotas for the Extremely Backward Classes in the state's municipal polls were "illegal" since these were not based on the report of a Dedicated Commission. The court then ordered the SEC could go ahead with the elections after "re-notifying" all such reserved seats as belonging to the general category
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