The Hindu 20.06.2013
Guwahati Municipal polls record 49 per cent polling
Special Correspondent
Only 49 per cent of the total voters in the city cast
their votes on Wednesday in the election to the Guwahati Municipal
Corporation that was held after a gap of ten years. The last election to
corporation was held in 2003.
The polling was held
in 862 polling stations to elect 31 Ward Councilors and 90 Area Sabha
members. Altogether 172 candidates of different political parties
contested the polls. Some stood as independents were in the fray for 31
ward councilor seats. There were 356 candidates for 90 Area Sabha
members. The counting of votes will be taken up on June 24. Chief
Minister Tarun Gogoi expressed confidence that the Congress would sweep
the polls. The Corporation has been functioning without an elected body
since 2008 when the council elected in 2003 was dissolved few months
before the completion of the five-year term after some elected members
had quit.
Issues like water-logging, scarcity of safe
drinking water, poor road condition and other civic amenities dominated
the campaigning.
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