The process of withdrawal of nominations for urban body elections-2014 ended on Saturday.
According to information, 38 nominations for the post of Mayor, 972 for Chairperson and 4103 for the post of corporator were withdrawn. With this, 88 candidates for the post of Mayor, 1778 for Chairperson and 21079 candidates for the post of corporator have remained in the election fray.
In Katni Municipal Corporation Sanjay Nigam and Ghanshyam Chawla of Bharatiya Janata Party, Sunil Mishra of Indian National Congress and independent candidate Santosh Paroha withdrew their nominations for the post of Mayor. Satish Chandra Agrawal of BJP and Narayan Das withdrew their nominations in Khandwa, independent candidate Neelam Sharma and Balwant Singh and Brajesh Shriwas of BJP in Gwalior, Anil Singh of BJP and Dilip in Dewas, Obaidullah, Shakib Saheb and Mohammad Aijaz of Indian National Congress and independent candidate Shaikh Hanif in Burhanpur, Krishna Chouhan and Anita Katariya of BJP in Ratlam, Rama Dube of Indian National Congress and Babita Saket of Bahujan Samaj Party in Rewa, Ratna Sudhir Singh Tomar, Neetu Manish Tiwari and Sarita Agrawal of Indian National Congress and independent candidate Shahnaz Begum in Satna, Keshav Prasad, Mahesh Kumar Sahu, Raj Bahadur Singh, Govind Jadiya, Nutan Dinesh alias lachchhu Bhai, Ram Kumar Sahu, Jagannath Guraiya and Vinod Kumar of BJP and independent candidate Ajay Soni in Sagar and Shyamwati Singh of Indian National Congress withdrew nomination for the post of Mayor in Singrauli Municipal Corporation. Several of these candidates had filed two sets of nominations.
Details are available on State Election Commission’s website www.mplocalelection.gov.in. Polling for first phase will be held on November 28 and second phase on December 4. Counting for the first phase will be held on December 2 and second phase on December 6.