Municipal Elections In Bengaluru

Buoyed by the victory in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections, the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday said it alone has the ability to defeat the BJP and hoped to get a similar response in the local body elections in Bengaluru whenever it is held.

The BJP has boycotted today's crucial elections to pick a Mayor for Bengaluru, a city which is facing multiple environmental and infrastructural problems. The party has filed a complaint before the Election Commission, alleging that there were voters on the list who were not eligible to vote as they live outside the city's municipal limits. The boy...

It's a narrower victory than last time, but Bengaluru has handed control of its municipality back to the BJP, which is celebrating its third big win after sweeping civic polls in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh earlier this month.

In Congress-ruled Karnataka, capital Bengaluru has picked the BJP again to fix its chronic civic problems, handing the party a majority in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP, that it has controlled for the last five years.

Bengaluru is voting today to elect its civic body, amid major concerns of traffic and cleanliness faced by its residents, in a high-prestige political battle. Till 12 noon, just 11 per cent of the electorate had come out to vote.

With the municipal elections due this Saturday, the residents of Bengaluru are thinking more than usual about the civic challenges faced by the city. A garden city that first turned into the country's IT capital, became a pensioner's paradise, and is now a startup town.

With familiar-sounding promises to clear out the garbage on streets, fix traffic jams, mend potholes and clean up filthy lakes, aspirants for the Bengaluru civic polls have jumped into the fray. Their first task at hand? Raise the offensive on opponents.

The Election Commission in Bengaluru has announced the schedule for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP elections. The polls will be held on July 28 and the counting of votes on July 31.

This is my 31st year as an elected representative. In 1983, I was first elected as a municipal councillor in Bengaluru - also called Corporator. The day I entered the municipal corporation building a senior leader gave me a pep talk that I must stay always accessible and approachable to the common man.

Buoyed by the victory in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections, the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday said it alone has the ability to defeat the BJP and hoped to get a similar response in the local body elections in Bengaluru whenever it is held.

The BJP has boycotted today's crucial elections to pick a Mayor for Bengaluru, a city which is facing multiple environmental and infrastructural problems. The party has filed a complaint before the Election Commission, alleging that there were voters on the list who were not eligible to vote as they live outside the city's municipal limits. The boy...

It's a narrower victory than last time, but Bengaluru has handed control of its municipality back to the BJP, which is celebrating its third big win after sweeping civic polls in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh earlier this month.

In Congress-ruled Karnataka, capital Bengaluru has picked the BJP again to fix its chronic civic problems, handing the party a majority in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP, that it has controlled for the last five years.

Bengaluru is voting today to elect its civic body, amid major concerns of traffic and cleanliness faced by its residents, in a high-prestige political battle. Till 12 noon, just 11 per cent of the electorate had come out to vote.

With the municipal elections due this Saturday, the residents of Bengaluru are thinking more than usual about the civic challenges faced by the city. A garden city that first turned into the country's IT capital, became a pensioner's paradise, and is now a startup town.

With familiar-sounding promises to clear out the garbage on streets, fix traffic jams, mend potholes and clean up filthy lakes, aspirants for the Bengaluru civic polls have jumped into the fray. Their first task at hand? Raise the offensive on opponents.

The Election Commission in Bengaluru has announced the schedule for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP elections. The polls will be held on July 28 and the counting of votes on July 31.

This is my 31st year as an elected representative. In 1983, I was first elected as a municipal councillor in Bengaluru - also called Corporator. The day I entered the municipal corporation building a senior leader gave me a pep talk that I must stay always accessible and approachable to the common man.