Your corporators may find it difficult to switch sides
Crossing fences would be difficult for local representatives after the forthcoming municipal elections.
By TNN |
MUMBAI: Crossing fences would be difficult for local representatives after the forthcoming municipal elections. The Democratic Front (DF) government in Maharashtra has taken a major decision to bring the local bodies - municipal corporations, councils, Zilla Parishads, and Panchayat Samitis - under the purview of the anti-defection law.
The Maharashtra Cabinet on Tuesday decided to bring in an ordinance to amend the relevant sections of the law. The ordinance would make the 91st amendment to the constitution - which in effect is anti-defection law - applicable to all local governing bodies. Under the law, an elected member of a political party who defects to other party or forms a separate party will have to forgo his or her membership. The arrangement would ensure that there are no defections or splinter groups during the run-up to the polls to municipal bodies in the state.
That the DF government has chosen to bring in an ordinance indicates the urgency with which it wants to put this arrangement in place well in advance before the elections.
Several major municipal corporations in the state, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Thane Municipal Corporation, Pune Municipal Corporation, Nashik Municipal Corporation, and Nagpur Municipal Corporation, are due for polls early ’07.
Similarly, 23 zilla parishads in the state go to polls between December ’06 and February ’07. Elections to the municipal bodies on such a large scale are being considered a mini-assembly election that would surely have a bearing on the political equations in the state.
The Maharashtra Cabinet on Tuesday decided to bring in an ordinance to amend the relevant sections of the law. The ordinance would make the 91st amendment to the constitution - which in effect is anti-defection law - applicable to all local governing bodies. Under the law, an elected member of a political party who defects to other party or forms a separate party will have to forgo his or her membership. The arrangement would ensure that there are no defections or splinter groups during the run-up to the polls to municipal bodies in the state.
That the DF government has chosen to bring in an ordinance indicates the urgency with which it wants to put this arrangement in place well in advance before the elections.
Several major municipal corporations in the state, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Thane Municipal Corporation, Pune Municipal Corporation, Nashik Municipal Corporation, and Nagpur Municipal Corporation, are due for polls early ’07.
Similarly, 23 zilla parishads in the state go to polls between December ’06 and February ’07. Elections to the municipal bodies on such a large scale are being considered a mini-assembly election that would surely have a bearing on the political equations in the state.
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