Standing committee meet adjourned over bypoll code

He said the all party leaders meeting was adjourned without proceeding with discussion on issues. “Everyone expressed unhappiness over the election code hampering development work when civic polls are round the corner,” Rajpal said adding that he would write to the election commissioner to restrict the election code only for the area that falls in the assembly segment.

Standing committee chairman Ganesh Bidkar said the civic administration has conveyed to the committee that no decision can be taken because of the election code and adjourned the meeting. “I have written to the election commission to apply the election code for the area that goes for the bypoll. It is going to delay of development projects of the city,” he added.

New deadline for panel views

Accepting such a demand from citizens,the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) election department has extended the deadline for filing suggestions on and objections to the newly constituted panel system for the civic polls. The earlier deadline was September 5. Now citizens can file suggestions and objections by September 17. The election commission has constituted 76 panels for the 152 seats of the PMC.

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