Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission (SEC) will hold review meetings at divisional level from May 12 to get first hand information about poll preparedness and security measures to be taken for urban local bodies elections likely next month.
A notification for the local bodies poll was likely to be issued in the last week of May and the elections are scheduled to be held in June and July.
State Election Commissioner SK Agarwal along with EC Additional Commissioners and Principal Secretary (Home), DGP and ADG (law and order) would visit Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Bareilly and Meerut between May 15 and 22 while a meeting will be held in lucknow in this regard on May 15.
``During the review, officials will hold long discussions with divisional officials and assess requirements and preparedness. After every meeting, they will brief the press,” said a SEC official.
The SEC had earlier started the process for rapid revision of electoral rolls from May 5 which will be completed in a record 20-day time.
Meanwhile, there was also a possibility to include two newly announced Municipal Corporations at Faizabad-Ayodhya and Mathura- Vrindavan in the elections for the first time. With this the total number of Municipal Corporation in the state will go up to 16.
In 2012 urban local bodies elections were held in four phases with 3.5 crore voters. This time the number of voters was likely to cross the 4 crore mark.
The BJP had swept the 2012 urban bodies poll, winning 11 of the 13 seats of Mayors across the state. Therefore, it would be the first real test for the party after winning 325 seats in the recently concluded Assembly elections.
Elections would be held for 654 posts - 438 municipal boards, 202 town areas and 14 municipal corporations. In all, 1,024 corporators in municipal corporations, 5,097 in municipal boards and 5,158 in municipal panchayats would be elected in these elections.