Bengaluru, 10 other cities in Karnataka face major delays in Corporation elections, reveals report
Bengaluru: A recent report on participatory government published by the non-profit Janaagraha states that corporation elections in Bengaluru and ten other cities in Karnataka have been postponed by an average of 22 months.
The state capital has seen the longest wait, 47 months, followed by Tumakuru, which has experienced a 12-month delay. The council elections for seven of these cities' mayors have been delayed by an average of eleven months.
Out of the 287 city governments in Karnataka, 210 have not been able to create councils; 23 have not held civic elections, and 187 have not been able to elect a mayor and deputy mayor through elected representatives.
Significant implementation limitations of decentralized participatory government in urban areas were also discovered by the report. Of the eleven city corporations, only one has functional ward committees, which are essential for local public participation. The state's area sabhas, which are supposed to promote grassroots democracy, are either nonexistent or have not been established.
According to the findings, the state's urban government framework has a number of crucial problems. Fifteen of the eighteen local governance responsibilities stipulated by the Constitution are mostly out of the city governments' hands.
Bengaluru residents frequently lament that when they bring up civic issues, they never receive a satisfactory answer or long-term resolution. They believe that local government, which has been absent from Bengaluru's landscape for a while, is the only entity that can address local problems.
The report also noted that legal challenges are causing elections to be delayed, with 89% of urban local bodies embroiled in a court battle over the government's adopted processes for rotating reservations for the mayor and deputy mayor positions.
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Puthucherry CM Rangasamy secures unassailable lead
Puducherry (PTI): Chief Minister and AINRC leader N Rangasamy was on course to retain his Thattanchavady Assembly constituency as counting of votes polled in the April 9 Puducherry Assembly elections was on across the UT.
At the end of four rounds of counting, which was the last one, the CM was ahead of his TVK-backed Neyyam Makkal Kazhagam candidate E Vinayakam by 4,441
votes, gaining an unassailable lead.
The veteran leader polled 10,024 while Vinayakam polled 5583 votes. Congress' Ve Vaithilingam polled 2990 votes, bracing for the fourth place after an independent.
This constituency is an important segment which drew the attention of political parties. Rangasamy has contested from two segments-Thattanchavady and Mangalam segments.
