After the state government declared reservation for the post of mayor of 29 municipal corporations, the Pune Divisional Commissioner held a meeting with officials of all municipal corporations in his area to discuss the mayoral election process.
He Pune The revenue division has municipal corporations of Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad, Solapur, Kolhapur and Ichalkaranji in its area. The municipal corporation election was held on January 15 and the result was declared on January 16.
“The divisional commissioner’s office has informed that first the sub-groups of each political party will be formed based on the election result. Afterwards, a returning officer will be appointed to conduct the mayoral election,” said a PMC official.
The PMC will then issue a notification for the election of the mayor and begin the process, he said, adding that the actual election of the mayor would take 15 days. The term of office of mayor is two and a half years.
In the PMC, the BJP won 119 of 165 seats, while the NCP won 27 seats, the Congress won 15 seats, the NCP (SP) won 3 seats and the Shiv Sena (UBT) won one seat.
In the previous five-year term from 2017 to 2022, the BJP was in power in the PMC and the post of mayor was an open category. Thus, Mukta Tilak and Murlidhar Mohol of the BJP were mayors for two and a half years each.
There was no elected body in PMC from 2022 till now and the civic body was under the administrator appointed by the state government. The elections were delayed due to the reservation of seats in the elections being contested before the Supreme Court.