Latest Municipal corporation News | Top Municipal corporation News Headlines Today | Today India news | Breaking Municipal corporation News Today | English Municipal corporation News Headlines - TheDailyGuardian

BJP loses Panchkula seat amid Sabotage; Chandramohan wins with community backing

October 9, 2024, 3:59 am

The defeat of BJP candidate Gyan Chand Gupta in Panchkula is largely attributed to internal sabotage by some of the party’s own leaders, as well as dissatisfaction with the Municipal Corporation’s performance. These factors combined to undermine the BJP’s campaign and contribute to Gupta’s loss in what turned out to be a closely contested election.
Sabotage by Party Leaders: A key factor behind Gupta’s defeat was the lack of genuine support from certain BJP leaders. While some party figures walked alongside Gupta during the campaign for appearances, their actions did not reflect a commitment to the party’s success. This led to a divided and weakened campaign, as these leaders did not put in the necessary effort to mobilize voters or address the concerns of the electorate. In fact, some of these leaders had their own aspirations of contesting the election, which further motivated them to undermine Gupta’s chances. This internal friction within the BJP not only led to confusion but also to a failure in rallying the party’s base, which cost them dearly in the election.

Dissatisfaction with the Municipal Corporation: The ongoing issues with the Municipal Corporation were another major factor that hurt the BJP’s chances in Panchkula. The local population was visibly upset with the Corporation’s inability to address basic issues such as road repairs, water shortages, and dengue outbreaks. In the lead-up to the election, many residents voiced their frustration with the local administration, particularly the Mayor, who failed to respond to calls for fogging to curb the spread of dengue. Despite numerous requests, residents were left waiting for action that never came. This neglect fueled public anger, and people began associating the BJP with the failures of the Municipal Corporation.
Gupta, as the party’s candidate, found himself in a difficult position. While he tried to address these concerns, he struggled to convince voters that the BJP was capable of solving the problems they faced. His attempts to differentiate himself from the Mayor’s administration were not enough to convince the electorate, who felt their grievances had been ignored for too long.

Close Contest: The Panchkula seat saw a very tight contest, with Congress candidate Chandramohan Bishnoi narrowly defeating Gyan Chand Gupta. Bishnoi received 67,397 votes, while Gupta garnered 65,400 votes, giving Bishnoi a slim margin of just 1,997 votes. The race was incredibly close, underscoring the significance of voter discontent and internal party dynamics. In comparison, the BJP’s performance in the Kalka seat was more pronounced, where the party’s candidate, Power Queen Sharma, defeated Congress’s Pradeep Chowdhary with a larger margin, reflecting different political dynamics in the two constituencies.

Civic bodies fail to address the stray cattle menace in Panchkula

August 12, 2024, 6:06 pm

A budget of several crore allocated by Municipal Corporation of Panchkula has gone down the drain as stray cattle moving on the city roads continue to pose a serious threat for the motorists as well as the morning and evening strollers. To add more to the embarrassment of civil bodies, now the mules and mares have added to the category of animals in addition to bulls, cows, and buffaloes, doting the busy main roads passing through the cities.

According to information, not all the cattle heads and animals are abandoned but the mules and mares are learnt to be owned by slum dwellers who leave them on the streets. So is the case of cows and buffaloes who are released by the dairies operating from within the city limits. Interestingly, the city body officials also blame the officials in neighbouring cities of Zirakpur (Peer Muchalla and Baltana) and UT Chandigarh villages pushing their stray cattle into Panchkula’s territory.

Notably, Panchkula’s erstwhile Municipal Council was formed in January 2000 and even after twenty-four years the problem of stray cattle remains unsolved.

‘The issue is being debated for years now.’ Remarks S K Nayyar, a resident activist, who keeps on highlighting these civil issues. He minced no words in elaborating upon the incidents wherein road accidents involving stray cattle have caused serious causalities.

‘I have to travel to Chandigarh everyday and there was a time where I had to encounter a group of mares and mules at every Panchkula roundabout’ said Anju, a Sector 9 resident, who claimed of hitting her car against a bull.

Meanwhile when contacted Panchkula Mayor Kulbhushan Goyal, he denied the presence of mules and ponies straying on the main roads of the roundabouts, even as The Daily Guardian have seen the mules and ponies grazing and straying near the office of civil bodies in Sector-14, Panchkula.

Mayor Kulbhushan Goyal however claimed that civil bodies are in process to float tenders worth Rs. 1.2 crores to deal with this menace.

Accountability For The UPSC’s ASPIRANTS’ DEATH Must Be Fixed

July 28, 2024, 9:50 pm

This cannot be allowed to pass under any circumstances. The death of three UPSC aspirants in the basement of a Civil Services coaching Centre in Rajinder Nagar in Delhi is something which should never have happened. All it took was 30 minutes of heavy rain and following which water gushed down to the area taking the students by surprise and leading to their horrific death. As expected, the blame game has commenced with political players blaming each other for this tragedy and attempting to score brownie points. Two persons including the owner have been detained but is this sufficient? Many questions get raised and there have to be proper answers. The Delhi Lti.Governor should immediately step in and take stock of the situation, and to begin with, take action against whoever is held responsible in the preliminary inquiry. The action should be against senior officials and not small-time functionaries, who can be easily implicated, though they may have contributed to the incident by their gross negligence.

Those who are supposed to monitor are the ones who should be taken to task. This action should be directed against zonal officials of the Municipal Corporation as well as senior members of the Delhi government. How did this happen? When the completion certificate was given to the building way back in 2021, it was stipulated that the basement should be used only for storage purposes. Obviously, it was being used for other things as well and the reason why these aspirants died was because they were at a place where they were not supposed to be there. Nothing can bring them back but there have to be lessons that need to be learnt. Unfortunately, these are never learnt and such tragedies repeatedly keep on happening.

A few days earlier, another aspirant was electrocuted in the national capital, which is indeed a matter of shame. The Central government must also step in and ensure that things are streamlined. The reason why Delhi has multiplicity of authority is because it has been deliberately done. This provides a getaway to inefficient bureaucrats who keep on shifting blame. In the end, an inquiry is conducted, and its findings are subsequently consigned to the files except where the bureaucracy needs to take certain measures on the paper, to absolve itself of blame in any such future incidents. The only time in Delhi a proper action was taken was way back in 1988, when there was an outbreak of cholera and gastro enteritis in the city, the Eastern part being most affected. The then Health Secretary tried to confine the argument in attempting to distinguish between cholera and gastro enteritis, leading to no respite. Politics took over and HKL Bhagat, a Union Minister and the MP from East Delhi, found it as an opportune time to settle scores with the then Lt.Governor HKL Kapoor, who was declining to listen to him.

Bhagat raised the matter with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who had just returned from an overseas visit along with his wife, Sonia and persuaded him to visit the area to see things for himself. Rajiv visited Gokulpuri, Nand Nagri and Sunder Nagri to witness the breakdown of sanitation conditions following the rains. The appalling conditions were there to see and the officials who were all there were summoned to a high-level meeting immediately following the visit. The Lt.Governor, the Chief secretary, the DDA vice Chairperson and the Municipal Commissioner were all removed by the night and three senior engineers placed under suspension. The impact was felt and till this day, the bureaucracy before the monsoons hold meetings to take stock of the epidemic conditions and issue guidelines which help to absolve them of any responsibility if there is an outbreak. In the latest instance, it has repeatedly been seen that every time there are monsoons, the city authorities are found to be wanting. Even in the pre-monsoon period after a spell of rain, there was flooding in the VVIP areas leading to a lot of damage and destruction. It is evident that there is no coordinated effort between various agencies.

If some construction takes place, it requires the upgradation of infra-structure as well. However, this is not done on time and leads to water logging and other problems that go with it. What is the need of the hour is that there has to be a single authority, which oversees all such issues. Unfortunately, the Chief Minister who is answerable to the people has limited powers, thanks to the provision in the Constitution, which are there because of the recommendations the Balakrishnan report. Balakrishnan was a bureaucrat also and instead of ending multiplicity of authority in the city ended up giving more powers to civil servants and making elected representatives weaker in the positions they were holding.
There has been in the past a demand for granting full statehood to Delhi, which has been raised by virtually every political party at some stage or the other. Statehood may not be the answer to many problems but at least it shall make the CM accountable. In the present scenario, an inquiry should be conducted and the heads of organisations responsible for the deaths should be made to answer for what has happened.

Municipal Corporation House Meeting: Officials Accept Proposal

July 27, 2024, 3:47 am

Chandigarh City Corporation of General House Meeting Friday To swaggering doing.
During the meeting, Municipal Corporation Commissioner Anandita Mitra confirmed that the Municipal Corporation does not have money to get the work done. As such, many works have been stopped. In fact, councilor Jasbir Singh protested and said that his area The agendas of the workers are not being implemented. Due to which many of their works are stalled. Regarding this, councilor Jasbir sat on the ground and started protesting. BJP councilors also reached there to support him.

There was a ruckus in the street cricket tournament when the mayor and MP were not invited street cricket tournaments are going to be organized soon in Chandigarh. There was a lot of uproar in the meeting regarding this. On one hand, the Aam Aadmi Party councillors were alleging that the Municipal Corporation mayor has not been invited to this tournament, nor has he been invited. Only the MP has been invited. The names of both are not mentioned in the posters that have been issued. Instead, the name of BJP President Jitendra Malhotra has been written. While the corporation has also given an amount of Rs. 5, lakh for this tournament. Is to build a government dispensary and school in Manimajra, the corporation will take around 40 lakh rupees as lease money every month from the administration

During the house meeting, the Municipal Corporation has also allotted land to the Chandigarh administration for building a government dispensary and a government school in Manimajra. In return, the Municipal Corporation will get lease money of about Rs 40 lakh every month. This is the agenda It has been passed. On this, councillor of ward number four Suman Sharma thanked everyone, while councillor of ward number five Darshana also thanked for passing the agenda.

A total of 16 agendas were placed meeting of Introduction In B J P And India alliance Of Councillor entangled Went. B J P Councillors Of Blame Was That Past Meeting Of during For them House From Outside Extract Of For Marshall Of Use Did Went. In this B J P Councillor of health till Bad yes Went Was. Whereas , the coalition Of Councillors Of Tell Was That House In Marshals Of Use of Pratha in 2021 B J P period In Start Hui Was.

This during Total 16 agendas keep Went Were. In this Two Agendas pending Tax Given Are. pending Agendas In One Knight Food Street Of Rules In shift Of is , while Second Shamlat And Mustaraka Lands From Illegal Occupations to get released Of Is. in Both Agendas But Next Meeting In Discussion It will be.

Madhya Pradesh: Gwalior Municipal Corporation’s eco green company employees goes on strike to demand dues

January 15, 2024, 4:56 pm

A portion of the eco-green company workers at Gwalior Municipal Corporation have gone on strike in protest of not only unpaid salaries that have been owed to them for three months, but also money from their PF (Provident Fund). The workers, who have been on strike since January 12, have threatened to stage a protest outside the district’s municipal corporation office tomorrow if their demands are not met. They will also bring their families along.

One of the employees of eco green company, Arun Mishra said, “We have been on strike from January 12 and will continue it till our demands are not met. We have not received salaries for the last three months and the PF money for the last three years. If our demands are not fulfilled then we will stage a protest along with our family members outside the municipal corporation office from tomorrow.”
Meanwhile, Additional Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, Vijay Raj said that the salary issue has been resolved and the municipal corporation committee will look into other demands of the employees.

He said that a committee of the municipal corporation is currently investigating the employee’s other demands and holding discussions with them to find a quick solution and put an end to the strike.

Proceedings of Delhi Municipal Corporation adjourned

January 6, 2023, 1:46 pm

The proceedings of Delhi Municipal Corporation have been adjourned after a continuous uproar. However, the next date will come later. Earlier in the day Delhi Municipal Corporation turns battleground as on Friday a huge ruckus was created at Civic Centre. Regarding the swearing-in of nominated councilors, a ruckus was created.

BJP vs AAP: Delhi Municipal Corporation turns battlefield

January 6, 2023, 1:14 pm

Delhi Municipal Corporation turns battleground as on Friday a huge ruckus was created at Civic Centre. Regarding the swearing-in of nominated councilors, a ruckus was created.

10 students fall ill due to chlorine gas leakage in swimming pool

December 9, 2022, 2:19 pm

In a municipal swimming pool in Vijayawada district of Andhra Pradesh, more than ten students aged between 8 to 14 years fell ill.

Following chlorine gas leakage all the students get ill and an accident took place on Wednesday in Vijayawada Municipal Corporation Swimming Pool.

Meanwhile, the incident took place when students were practicing in the swimming pool.

Due to chlorine leakage in the pool children are seriously ill. All the students were preparing for the competitions to be held in Eluru on December 11.

Rambabu, the Swimming pool academy supervisor said, “The incident happened at around 8:30 pm on Wednesday night. Some of the swimmers requested us to give them permission for swimming as they are having a competition on December 11. We told them to get permission from the municipal commissioner and they said that have permission.”

Moreover, to a government hospital, all ten sick children were shifted and in critical condition, a child was shifted to a private hospital.

However, all students are stable now.

Furthermore, the student’s parents said due to improper chlorine system maintenance and management the incident took place.

“Due to the leakage of chlorine gas in the swimming pool, 10 to 12 students aged between 8-14 years fell ill. We took them to a government hospital. The gas leakage happened due to old equipment and an old gas cylinder. It was controlled later. All students are stable now. One of our staff also fell ill in this incident along with students,” Rambabu said.

“I am only the person who records the data of swimmers and the rest are monitored by DFO and municipal corporation officials. The swimming pool is scheduled up to 8 but with the request of the swimmers, it was up to 8:30 pm. We informed the officials about the incident. They had reached the hospital and given assurance to their parents,” Rambabu said.

67% of councilors elected to MCD are crorepatis: ADR Report

December 8, 2022, 4:43 pm

According to an Association for Democratic Reforms report, at least 67% of the 250 newly elected councilors in the MCD are crorepatis.
It stated that 51% of the 266 council members examined in 2017—when 270 wards of the three municipal corporations at the time went to the polls—were crorepatis.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) now has 250 seats following the delineation of wards earlier this year.

The AAP won 134 seats, limiting the BJP to 104 seats, ending the BJP’s 15-year rule in the MCD, which was divided into north, south, and east corporations in 2012 and unified this year. Only nine seats were gained by the Congress, and three wards went to independent candidates.
“Out of the 248 winning candidates analysed, 167 (67 per cent) are crorepatis. Out of 266 councillors analysed during MCD elections (in) 2017, 135 (51 per cent) councillors were crorepatis,” the report said.

According to the report, the BJP had the greatest number of councillors with assets worth more than one crore (82), out of all the parties.

“…82 (79 per cent) out of 104 from the BJP, 77 (58 per cent) out of 132 from the AAP, 6 (67 per cent) out of nine from the INC (Indian National Congress) and 2 (67 per cent) of three Independent winning candidates have declared assets worth more than ₹1 crore,” the report added.
The Association for Democratic Reforms and Delhi Election Watch analysed the affidavits of 248 of 250 councillors in the MCD elections. Due to the absence of clear and comprehensive affidavits filed with the State Election Commission, Delhi, it was impossible to analyse the assets of the two victorious candidates.
The 132 AAP councillors examined had an average asset value of 3.56 crore, compared to 5.29 crore for the 104 BJP councillors, according to the research.

According to the Association for Democratic Reforms, the nine Congress councillors’ average assets per candidate were 4.09 crore rupees. The combined assets of the three independent council members are 5.53 crore.

Election day was December 4, and the results were made public on Wednesday. VA PTI SZM

Delhi MCD Election results 2022; AAP wins

December 7, 2022, 8:51 am

The counting of votes for 250 wards of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is completed and in neck-and-neck contest between AAP and BJP, AAP has won the MCD elections.

The Aam Aadmi Paty (AAP) leads in 134 seats, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 104 seats, Congress in 9 seats, and Others in 3 seats. At Arvind Kejriwal’s residence the supporters of AAP has gathers with flowers.

Delhi MCD Elections:

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP): 134

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): 104

Congress: 9

Others: 3

Results have come on 240 seats of Municipal Corporation of Delhi in which BJP wins 99 seats, AAP wins 131, Congress wins 7 and others 3 as counting continues. The celebration at the party office has begun by the AAP workers.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Shyam Kumar Mishra wins Mohan Garden ward, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s candidate Alka Raghav won the Laxmi Nagar seat, BJP gains victory in Seelampur ward, BJP has also won from Lajpat Nagar and Rohini-D seat and 94 others.

Talking about AAP, Aam Aadmi Party’s Sarika Chaudhary gains victory in Daryaganj ward, Pinky Tyagi has won in Ward no. 159 Chattarpur and 129 others.

AAP and BJP leading candidates in MCD Elections

Meanwhile, AAP candidate Aarti Yadav is leading in Kapasheda, AAP candidate Salma Khan is leading in Zakir Nagar ward, AAP’s Pankaj Gupta is leading in Sangam Vihar and AAP candidate Veena leads from Mayur Vihar ward.

BJP’s Ravinder Kumar is leading from Ward Number 74 (Chandni Chowk), BJP is leading in ward in Manish Sisodia’s area. BJP is leading in Maharani Bagh, BJP candidate Usha is leading in Karol Bagh, and Congress candidate Mumtaz leads from Seelampur seat.

So far initial trends 12 pm AAP is leading in MCD elections, BJP is on second place and Congress once again failed to impress voters despite doing Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Earlier in the day, Delhi BJP Vice President Rajiv Babbar expressed confidence over the win of BJP in MCD elections and said, “We believe in democracy. The people of Delhi are very smart. We are not like Arvind Kejriwal who writes in advance that they are winning. The people notice everything, from AAP leader in jail to corruption.”

Babbar said, “We are going to cross 125 seats. It will be clear after an hour and we are confident that BJP is going make its mayor.”

The counting of the votes started from 8 am onwards for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi election.

Delhi State Election Commission has geared up for the counting of votes for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) election on Wednesday.

The counting of the votes will take place from 8 am onwards and the winner of the high-stakes civic polls where the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) face each other.

Earlier on 4 December, the MCD elections were held in the national capital where 50 percent voter turnout and a total of 1,349 candidates were in the fray for 250 wards.

Moreover, the civic polls are largely seen as a three-way contest between the BJP, the AAP, and Congress.

According to the exit polls, Aam Aadmi Party will win the elections of the municipal polls.

However, if AAP wins in the MCD elections then the first Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP will rule the municipal corporation of the national capital.

Furthermore, exit polls predicted a poor performance by Congress and once again the party has failed to revive itself in Delhi.

MCD polls: ‘Dry Days’ to be imposed on Delhi for 3 days

December 2, 2022, 12:01 pm

The alcohol sale in Delhi will be restricted for three days ahead of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections. The dry days will start from Friday.

Meanwhile, from 5.30 PM on Friday the ban will be imposed on the same day the civic polls campaign ends till 4 December.

Moreover, the voting will take place on 4 December and the ban will be imposed again on 7 December.

The Excise department issued an official statement and said, “On account of the MCD Election in the NCT of Delhi from 17:30 Hours of December 2, 2022 (Friday) to December 4 2022 up to 17:30 Hours (Sunday) and From 00:00 Hours to 24:00 Hours on December 7, 2022 (Wednesday) shall be observed as dry days.”

However, for the MCD elections, the campaigning will end on Friday (today) and all political parties will be making their last-ditch campaigning effort.

Currently, BJP holds the reins of the civic bodies in the national capital and the election will take place at the 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

AAP’s manifesto released by Delhi CM Kejriwal for MCD polls

November 11, 2022, 1:39 pm

Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s national convener on Friday released the party’s manifesto for the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections and promised on fulfilling 10 ‘guarantees’.

“We will work to fulfill 10 guarantees. We will clean the streets of Delhi and solve the issue of Garbage Mountains, and beautification of parks will be done,” said Delhi CM. He further promised of making MCD corruption free and to solve vehicle-parking problems as part of his manifesto for the MCD polls. He assured to pay the MCD workers on time.

On November 9, CM Kejriwal presided over a meeting in the national capital with senior officials. Prior to that, AAP MLAs participated in an important meeting led by the deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and the party’s state convenor and minister Gopal Rai, where they were given tasks at various levels to do in order to get ready for civic body elections in all 250 MCD seats.

The AAP has also started the “Kude Par Jansamvad” campaign as part of its civic body election preparations, in which AAP representatives would listen to people’s garbage problems and discuss their solutions through Jansamvad.

The party intends to host a public discussion in each of Delhi’s 13682 booths by November 20. About 500 people will attend the party, it has been decided.

All AAP office holders have been ordered to travel to all neighbourhoods in Delhi, speak with residents, and attempt to comprehend their problems.

Elections for 250 MCD seats in Delhi’s civic bodies will take place on December 4 as announced by the Election Commission. The election nomination process has also begun.

The deadline for nominations is November 14, and the forms will be reviewed on November 16. November 19 is the final day for withdrawing nominations.