BMC Elections 2017

 

The elections will be held Brihanmumbai Mahanagar companies on February 21, and will be counting the votes in February 23. The new leadership will take office March 8 before.

The model code of conduct rules in place since it was announced on 11 January to ensure compliance model code of conduct and form EC monitoring committees headed by the municipal council in each company's specific survey. He said Saharia will closely follow, especially on the use of social media for campaigning.

Expenditure ceiling


He said the elections commissioner will each candidate to open a new bank account for the elections, and submit all details of the expenditures from this account within 30 days of the election. It has been roped Indian Revenue Service to monitor spending in Mumbai, and if the rider was found that the breach or limit their party failed to disclose details of spending within two months, and can suspend and cancel the registration. In Mumbai, it has been revised spending by each candidate to 10 lakh rupees.

Electoral rolls
For the first time voters who have registered with the commission by October 21 are eligible to vote. Unveiled in December 2016 revealed that Mumbai has added 2.97 lakh new voters Id who will cast their franchise in the elections BMC, according to data compiled by the civil authorities. Number corresponds with an increase of 3.3 per cent in the number of voters.

Of new voters, it saw the island city of 65,000 added to the list of voters, suggesting that class vote in the city - the middle and lower income groups - and migrate to the suburbs, which saw a number of voters rise by about 2.3 lakh.

In fact, on the basis of this transformation, the island city's seven wards lost to the suburbs when he was re-mapping.