AAP releases first list of candidates for local body elections in UP

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 13 : Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday released the first list of its candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls.

The party announced the list of 40 candidates for the post of Nagar Palika Parishad Chairperson and 97 candidates for the Nagar Panchayat Chairperson.

The first list also includes six candidates for Mayoral posts.

The party has fielded Richa Singh from Meerut, Mohammad Kadir from Prayagraj, Rajkumar from Aligarh, Ramesh Sharma from Gorakhpur, Rajkumari Verma from Firozabad, and Sharda Tandon from Varanasi for the Mayoral posts.

The urban local body polls in the State will be held in two phases.

The first phase will be held on May 4 and the second phase on May 11. The counting of votes for both phases will be held simultaneously on May 13.

State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar, in a press briefing, last week, said, "The voting of urban local body polls will be held in two phases on May 4 and 11. The first phase of polling will include 37 districts while 38 districts are included in the second phase."

The Election Commissioner said that the Model Code of Conduct has come into force from Sunday, with the announcement of the dates.

"Municipal elections will be done with EVM. In Municipality and Nagar Panchayat, it will be done with wallet paper", he said.

Earlier, the State Election Commission said that the elections would be held on 14,684 seats in 760 urban local bodies of the State.

The election will be held for 17 seats of Mayor, 1,420 of Corporator, 199 of Nagar Palika Parishad Chairperson, 5,327 of Nagar Palika Parishad Member, 544 of Nagar Panchayat Chairperson and 7,178 seats of Nagar Panchayat Member.

The Voting through EVMs will take place on 17 seats of the Mayor and 1,420 seats of corporators in the State. For the rest of the posts, voting will be conducted using ballots.