CHENNAI: Greater Chennai Corporation on Friday received its first nomination for the urban local body polls. It was filed by independent candidate M Vijaya for the councillor post in ward 158 at Alandur. The ward is reserved for women (general).
Assistant revenue officers (AROs) have been posted in 37 offices across the city to receive nominations from 10am to 5pm daily apart from national holidays.
The officers can be submitted until 5pm on February 4. The civic body issued a notice with details of ward reservation and address of the assistant returning officers to whom the nomination papers have to be handed over. The provision is also available online.
Of the 200 wards in 15 zones, 84 are unreserved, 84 reserved for women (general), 16 for women (Scheduled Castes) and 16 for Scheduled Caste (general).
Dravidian majors AIADMK and DMK will release their list of candidates before Monday and the filing of nominations will begin after that, said party sources. Several other parties such as Seeman’s Naam Tamizhar Katchi and Kamal Haasan-led Makkal Needhi Maiyyam, which performed well in several constituencies by coming second or third place in last year’s assembly election, are also gearing up to release their candidate lists in the coming days.
Greater Chennai Corporation officials have held several meetings to prepare for the local body polls. The elections will be held for the first time after the tenure of the previous council ended in October 2016. Since then the corporation commissioner, municipal corporation chairman and town panchayat chairman have been running the council as special officers.
