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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MP: Woman, lover conspire to get husband killed; police looking for contract killer
Dhar (MP) (PTI): A 25-year-old woman and her lover have been arrested in the district for allegedly conspiring to kill her husband by hiring a contract killer, police said on Thursday.
The case was solved within 36 hours of the murder though the woman initially tried to mislead the police by claiming that robbers killed her husband, an official said.
Dev Krishna Purohit (28) was stabbed to death on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday at his house in Gondikheda Charan village, about 60 km from here.
Superintendent of Police Mayank Awasthi told reporters that accused Priyanka Purohit (25) was married to Dev Krishna when she was around 15 years old. Priyanka moved to her matrimonial home after attaining adulthood but was unwilling to live with her husband, leading to frequent disputes between them.
During investigation, it emerged that she was in a relationship with Kamlesh (32), the SP said.
The duo allegedly hatched a plan to kill Dev Krishna and hired a man identified as Surendra for Rs 1 lakh do the job, he said
After Dev Krishna was killed, Priyanka told police that unidentified persons broke into the house, attacked her husband with a sharp weapon while holding her captive in another room, and fled with valuables.
But the inconsistencies in her statements raised suspicion, and eventually she confessed to hatching the murder conspiracy, the SP said.
While she and Kamlesh were arrested, police are looking for the contract killer, the official added.
