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The State Election Commission on Sunday also brought in 14,000 home guards from Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan to assist the CAPFs and local police in maintaining law and order across the city. A senior police officer said, “For the MCD elections, around 40,000 Delhi Police personnel, around 20,000 home guards and 108 companies of CAPFs and SAPs are to be deployed.”
Over 1.45 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the MDC’s 250 wards, in which 1,349 candidates are in the fray. In what is being seen as a triangular contest between the Aam Aadmi Party, the BJP and the Congress, polling will be held from 8 am to 5.30 pm and the counting of votes will take place on December 7.
As per the data shared by the State Election Commission officials, the total number of voters in Delhi is 1,45,05,358 – 78,93,418 males, 66,10,879 females and 1,061 transgender persons.
This is the first civic poll in the national capital after the February 2020 riots in Delhi, and as per the data shared by the officials, 3360 booths spread over 493 locations have been marked in sensitive or sensitive categories.
Election officials said that sixty-eight model polling stations and as many pink polling stations have been set up covering all the eleven assembly constituencies for quality voter experience.
This is also the first civic body election after the fresh delimitation exercise, and will take place a few days after the first phase of the Gujarat assembly elections and a day before the second phase.
Authorities have set up 13,638 polling booths across Delhi for the exercise. Delhi had 272 wards and Delhi had three corporations – NDMC, SDMC and EDMC – from 2012-2022, before being re-integrated into the MCD which formally came into existence on 22 May.
The erstwhile MCD, established in 1958, was bifurcated into three parts in 2012 during Sheila Dikshit’s tenure as chief minister. With the announcement of the date of MCD polls on November 4 by State Election Commissioner Vijay Deo, the Model Code of Conduct came into force in the national capital with immediate effect from the same day.
Both the AAP and the BJP have expressed confidence that they will emerge victorious in the elections, while the Congress is trying to regain lost ground. The high-decibel campaign for the December 4 polls, which saw AAP and BJP heavyweights roadshow in the national capital amid political lethargy, came to an end on Friday.
In a final push to their parties’ campaigns on Friday, BJP leaders held over 200 public meetings and roadshows, while Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia held a town hall with 400 traders, asking citizens The issues faced by them during handling were discussed. Body.
A traders body on Saturday said that all wholesale and retail markets in the national capital will remain closed in view of the civic polls on December 4. The Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) said popular markets including Lajpat Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Krishna Nagar, Kamla Nagar, Karol Bagh, Laxmi Nagar among others will remain closed.
A few days before the elections, the BJP has the maximum number of crorepati candidates, followed by the AAP and the Congress, according to a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
Two of the top three richest candidates are from the BJP and one from the AAP. In the civic elections held in 2017, the BJP had won 181 out of 270 wards. Voting could not be held in two seats due to the death of the candidates. AAP had won 48 wards and Congress 27. The voting percentage in the 2017 civic polls was around 53.
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