Chennai: DMK has a plan to involve a female candidate for the election of the Mayor of Chennai, said the high source at the party.
The State Election Commission, meanwhile, prepares to hold elections to more than 600 local urban agencies in the state at the end of December because the Supreme Court has given four months to complete the electoral process since 2016.
The ruling party tried to continue its victory and ensure That the selected representative was at the earliest environmental level to attend public complaints.
“The height of the party was interested in deploying a woman for the mayor’s post in Chennai.
Women voters stand near the party in the April Assembly election and we believe they will support us in the election of the mayor too,” said a senior leader.
The government is expected to notify the reserve seat immediately for the position of the company’s mayor and chairman of the municipality and the city of the city.
Environmental restrictions and seating chairs – SC / ST (Gen), SC / ST (Women) and General (Women) – For urban local agencies in nine districts will begin after the government issued orders in the coming days.
The Jayalalithaa government has enacted laws to provide a 50% quota for women in the local body.
According to sources, the DMK government has no plan to hold direct elections for mayor’s posts and chairman of local objects.
In 2020, the previous EPS government did go with direct election laws imposed in 2018 and returned to the indirect election plan of the government of JayaLalitHAA 2016.
The fight is that if the mayor does not belong to the party who enjoys the majority in the board, the development work will be jammed.
The State Election Commission held a video conference on Wednesday with the district collector to review the readiness in conducting polls and discussing filling up empty key posts, the appointment of the officers returned and the assistant officer returned.
The meeting also discussed the identification of the polling booth and official training in preparing selection scrolls.
“The 55 member team from Bharat Electronics Limited has been deployed in Chennai, Coimbatore, Trichy, Madurai and Salem to prepare electronic voting machines for polls,” said an official.
The Commission has decided to hold a regional meeting with the district administrator from next week and so on.
Indirect elections, where environmental council members will choose the mayor and chairman of local objects, the possibility of happening before the pongal.