Tamil Nadu Holds Urban Local Body Election After 10 Years
NDTV
After scoring a hat trick - winning the Lok Sabha polls, rural local body polls and assembly elections - Chief Minister MK Stalin is aiming for a fourth consecutive win.
The urban local body polls are being held today in Tamil Nadu after a gap of over 10 years. Twenty-one cities including Chennai, 138 municipalities and 490 town panchayats will elect more than 12,000 members. Over the last five years these bodies did not have elected representatives as elections were not held.
After scoring a hat trick - winning the Lok Sabha polls, rural local body polls and assembly elections - Chief Minister MK Stalin is aiming for a fourth consecutive win.
He has reiterated his government would soon announce the Rs 1,000 monthly cash pay out for women, his party, the DMK promised before assembly polls.
"I tell you, soon this Stalin would fulfill the promise of monthly Rs 1,000 for women heads of families. Don't worry or doubt. This Stalin will definitely fulfill if he says anything," Mr Stalin, who campaigned only virtually, said in one of his last addresses.
