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This will be the first civic election after the fresh delimitation exercise, and the poll will be held days after the first phase of Gujarat polls.

The elections to the 250-ward MCD are seeing high-pitched contests between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which currently holds the reins of the civic bodies in the national capital, and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), besides the Congress.

"A total of 20,000 security personnel of Home Guards have also been asked from the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana for the election duty," said an official. 📰 MCD Elections 2022: 40,000 Security Personnel To Be Deployed on Polling Day on December 4 for Delhi Municipal Corporation Polls.

The election of 250 Municipal Corporation of Delhi wards in the national capital is scheduled to be held on December 4 (Sunday). The counting of votes will be done on December 7.

Besides the organisational activities for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, upcoming state assembly elections, including in Tripura and Karnataka besides some other northeastern states, may also feature in the discussions of the BJP national office bearers meeting.

In Delhi, there is a solid undercurrent in favour of the Congress, as the people are fed up with the lies of both parties according to Anil Chaudhary, the AICC secretary in-charge of Delhi Ajoy Kumar.

The cellphones of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Akhileshpati Tripathi and two other AAP leaders were stolen during a roadshow of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the Malka Ganj area on Wednesday ahead of the upcoming elections to Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) scheduled on December 4.

Liquor sale will be stopped in Delhi as  soon as the campaigning for Delhi MCD Polls ends and the ban will continue till December 4.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said clearing landfill sites, redevelopment of markets, regularisation of temporary employees and timely payment of salaries will be the top priorities of the AAP if it wins the civic body polls.

MCD polls: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is contesting from 16 seats, including Mustafabad. The Asaduddin Owaisi-led party had contested the civic body polls on nine wards in 2017 but drew a blank.