UP State Election Commission (SEC) has extended the schedule of revision of the electoral rolls by 10 days with giving more time to the voters to file their claims and objections for the coming urban local bodies elections. Earlier the SEC had announced that the final publication of the electoral rolls would be made on May 25. The date has now been extended by 10 days to June 5.
With the change in schedule the voters would get 14 days to file their claims and objections on the electoral rolls which had started on May 16 and will continue till May 29. Earlier this proce4ss was scheduled to end on May 19. Similarly the time given for preparation for the final electoral rolls has been enhanced by a day as now it will be done from May 30 to June 4 while earlier it was to be done from May 20 to 24.
The announcement of the revision of the electoral rolls were made on May 5 when the SEC had announced to prepare the electoral rolls for the upcoming urban local bodies polls in 654 municipal bodies. Earlier the rapid revision of the of the present electoral rolls was done from May 5 to 8 and revised rolls were published on May 9.
The SEC has said that the poll schedule of the urban local bodies is likely to be announced by the first week of June. During the 2012, four phases local urban bodies polls, there were around 3.5 crore voters and this time it is likely to cross 4 crore mark.
BJP had swept the previous urban bodies elections in 2012, winning 11 out of 13 seats of mayors across the state. Therefore, it would be the first real test for the party after winning 325 seats in the just-concluded Assembly elections. The elections would be held for 654 posts -438 municipal boards, 202 town areas and 16 Municipal Corporations. In all, 1,024 corporators in the municipal corporations, 5,097 in municipal boards and 5,158 in nagar panchayats would be elected in these elections.