Altogether 4, 431 candidates, including 2,234 women aspirants, are in the fray for the Bihar Nagar Nikay elections. Nine of them have already been declared elected unopposed.
Women won 458 posts of ward councillors, mayor and and deputy mayor in the Bihar municipal polls, the results of which were declared by the State Election Commission on Sunday.
Hearing a writ plea challenging the Bihar Municipal Polls 2022 and the report of the dedicated Commission constituted by the state government to study the representation of Other Backward Classes.
Bihar Municipal Elections: “We suspect the BJP’s hand in the goof-up. The party and its parent body RSS have always been opposed to quotas,” the JD(U) leaders alleged.