On the last day to file nominations for different posts of urban civic bodies across the State political stalwarts registered their presence and filed nominations for Mayor and Deputy Mayoral polls.
For Ranchi Municipal Corporation Mayor’s post five nominations were filed by Asha lakra (BJP), Ajay Tirkey (Congress), Varsha Gari (JMM), Shiv Kumar Kachhap (JVM), Kusum Ranjita Singh Munda (AJSU). One independent candidate, Prem Kumar Singh, had earlier filed his nomination.
For the post of deputy mayor 17 nominations were filed on Thursday including those of Sanjeev Vijaywargiya (BJP), Rajesh Gupta (Congress), Uttam Yadav (JVM), Ashraf Khan (JMM) among others. The AJSU Party’s candidate Munchun Roy had already filed nomination for the post on Wednesday.
The nomination filing of the political stalwarts such as Asha lakra, Sanjeev Vijaywargiya and others saw presence of senior leaders of different parties. lakra and Vijaywargiya were accompanied by Urban Development Minister CP Singh alongwith hundreds of supporters of the BJP.
Similarly, Congress candidates Ajay Tirkey and Rajesh Gupta were accompanied by former Ranchi MP Subodh Kant Sahay and dozens of supporters. The candidates of JMM, JVM and AJSU party were also flocked by supporters during the nomination process. Over 170 candidates filed nominations for ward councillor’s post for 53 wards of the RMC.
The nomination filing procedure ended today and scrutiny will be done on March 23 while the process of taking the names back from the poll will be done on March 27. Election symbols will be allotted to contestants on March 28 from 11 AM to 3 PM. Counting of votes will be done on April 20 from 8 AM onwards. On 21 April, final result will be published.
In accordance to the total population, the contestants have been allowed to spend funds. Area with a population of 10 lakh and above contestants for the post of Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Chairman and Vice-Chairman have been allowed to expend upto Rs25 lakh while the ward councilors have been granted the permission to spend upto Rs5 lakh.
Over 12,337 polling booths have been identified by the State Election Commission. Approximately, 22 lakh electorates are expected to cast their vote in the upcoming municipal poll-2018, as per the records available with State Election Commission.