The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president on Tuesday said that his party was determined to conduct the local body polls in a cordial and affirmative atmosphere.
Chouhan in a statement here said, “We are determined to come to a consensus at every level for going in the local body polls and efforts are on to conduct these elections in a cordial and affirmative atmosphere.” Chouhan further said that the selection process for candidates would start from mandal level. The mandal recommendation committee would be having its president, general secretary, BJP state office bearers residing in the Mandal except district presidents and minister, local MlA and where there is no party MlA then the party candidate of the last assembly election as its members, he added.
He said Mandal recommendation committee would form a panel for municipality chairman and Corporators with its recommendations to the district committee. This committee would take suggestions from Mahila Morcha, Yuva Morcha, Mandal office bearers and prominent persons before its meeting. He said the district selection committee would include district president, district general secretary, Mahila Morcha president, fulltime district in-charges, MPs and MlAs. This committee would send prepare a panel of candidates and would forward it to the divisional committee.
He said the divisional committee would select the names of the municipality’s chairmen while it would recommend the names for mayors to the state election committee. If any appeal comes against the district committee than this committee would hear that appeal and would take decision on it. Organizational general secretary would be the ex-officio member of this committee, he added.
He said the state election committee would finalise the names of mayors after having discussions on the names sent by divisional committees. If any appeal comes against the divisional committee than this committee would hear that appeal and would take decision on it. The decision of this committee would be final, he added.