Chennai: After waiting for a long and prolonged legal wrangling, Tamil Nadu will choose representatives of urban local bodies in the middle of a raging Covid-19 wave.
For political parties, 2021 busy years, with the election held at the State Assembly and rural local agencies in nine newly carved districts.
The election of rural local bodies in other districts was held in 2020 under the previous AIDMK regime.
The results of the sole phase selection to urban local bodies on February 19, as announced by the Commissioner of the V Palanikumar Country Election on Wednesday, will create a new road map for local administration.
The AIDMK government had previously announced the date for the local agency poll in September 2016.
But a series of legal Tussles after the petition and petition lawyer by DMK and AIDMK in the presence of Madras High Court and the Supreme Court postponed the process.
The poll for the countryside of the local agency was held after four years in 2020 but the poll of the urban local agency was postponed until the High Court on Tuesday gave a nod to the commission to announce the date for the poll.
Announcement will encourage two dravidian majors, allies, and other parties to work overtime to deal with polls, whose results can increase or draw politics.
Stored on the opposition bench for two consecutive terms since 2011, DMK saw a revival after the death of the leader of AIDMK J Jayalalalithaa.
The party not only tasted extraordinary success in Lok Sabha 2019 polls who won 38 of 39 seats but also extended the victory line to 2021 assembly polls and 2021 local rustic polls.
The combination of alliances in the AIDMK Front has changed significantly with PMK, which opposes the assembly selection of 2021 as an ally, contested in the local country rural polls independently.
PMK is expected to do it again for the selection of urban local agencies.
DMDK also comes out of the alliance.
DMK has managed to defend his partner together.
The Commission has directed polls officials to bring all activities including submission of nominations, nomination supervision, withdrawal of nominations and allotment of symbols under the supervision of CCTV.
The Commission has published a list of voting stations in urban local agencies on November 9 last year and January 4 this year.
It has published a roll of urban local agency elections on December 9 and January 10 this year.