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Governance

BBMP Council election: “As history repeats itself, citizens are paying the price”

September 19, 2020 Manasi Paresh Kumar

As the state government appoints an administrator to BBMP and indefinitely delays Council elections, how are citizens affected? History shows that the absence of a Council makes BBMP more unaccountable and inaccessible.

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Governance

MLAs to meet next week on splitting Bengaluru

April 16, 2015 Akshatha M

While the court expects BBMP elections by end of May, the state government tried another approach to dissolve BBMP and push elections out.

Governance

State Election Commission orders voter roll checking after citizens detect goof up

February 15, 2010 Vaishnavi Vittal

The English language voter rolls for several polling booths were found to be complete replications of entries from other booths, Smart Vote found out.

Governance

BBMP elections on 21 Feb, voting on a Sunday

December 9, 2009 Vaishnavi Vittal

Bengaluru is all set to have a council of its own, with elections slated to be held on Sunday, February 21st, 2010. But will key mayoral and ward committee reforms be passed by the state assembly before that?

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