The Uttar Pradesh government has finalised the reservation of seats of mayors and chairpersons of 17 municipal corporations, 200 nagar palikas and 545 nagar panchayats.
The seat of mayor of Lucknow will be for general category. The seat of mayors of Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Kanpur Nagar, Varanasi, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur will also be for general category. The seat of mayor of Agra has been reserved for women from Scheduled Caste, of Jhansi for Scheduled Caste, of Mathura-Vrindavan, Aligarh, Meerut and Prayagraj for Other Backward Classes.
The mayoral seats of Ayodhya, Saharanpur and Moradabad have been reserved for women.
After the thumping victory in UP assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has intensified its preparations for getting a majority of the votes in the civic elections. The elections to civic bodies are likely to be held by the end of December and the poll process is likely to be completed in January next year.
The BJP has almost completed a voter revision campaign as part of its strategy for these elections. As part of this campaign, the people who are eligible to exercise their vote will be contacted so that their names can be added to the voter list.
Instructions have been issued by BJP state president Bhupendra Chaudhary and general secretary (organisation) Dharampal Singh to party’s state office-bearers, regional presidents, district presidents and district in-charges to make teams and run this campaign successfully.
At the same time, the party is also preparing to give tickets to people of different sections of society in the local bodies’ election, for which the process is going on.
Recently, the BJP organised Pasmanda conferences at the district level, to connect with the Muslim community in the state. This time the BJP is also preparing to give tickets to Pasmanda Muslims in civic elections.
According to Kunwar Basit Ali, president of the ruling party's minority front, more than 1200 ward-level candidates will be from Pasmanda society, and the process could continue in the next elections as well.
BJP spokesperson Hero Bajpai said that the party had already started preparations for the civic elections and now the exercise was to add new voters through the voter revision campaign, for which the state office-bearers had been instructed to serve the public throughout the year.
The party aims to raise the spirit and enthusiasm of its workers before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.