Guwahati Municipal Elections to be Held on April 19

GUWAHATI: The State Election Commission announced on Wednesday stated that the much-anticipated polls for the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) will be held on April 19, 2022.

Meanwhile, the counting of votes will be held on May 21.

As per the State Election Commission, the polling will be held for 60 seats and out of which 50 per cent seats will be reserved for women.

The last day of filing of nomination and scrutiny of papers will take place on April 1, while April 4 is the last day of withdrawal of nomination papers.

Voting will be held from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm. The total number of voters in the municipal elections is 6,98,829 and the total number of polling stations is 69.

Notably, after a massive win in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is eyeing to repeat its victory in the state too as the party has announced to contest Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC).

According to a TOI report, AAP will contest in all the 60 wards with 99 per cent candidates to be picked from among the residents of respective wards.

''Kejriwal model will work in the Assam capital like the way it did in Punjab,'' the report quoted AAP National Council member and Assam in-charge Rajesh Sharma as saying.

Expressing his confidence over Kejriwal's model of governance, Sharma said that when voters in Lakhimpur and Tinsukia could prefer APP over a force like BJP, then, in that case, the Guwahati results will fall in AAP's favour.

''The success that we are going to taste in the GMC election may not necessarily be impacted by the Punjab success, but by Kejriwal's Delhi model definitely,'' the report quoted him as saying further.

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