{"id":226516,"date":"2023-02-14T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=226516"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:10:27","slug":"mayoral-polls-nominated-members-cant-vote-says-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mayoral-polls-nominated-members-cant-vote-says-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral polls: nominated members can\u2019t vote, says SC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Mayoral polls: nominated members can\u2019t vote, says SC<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 14th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has said that the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aldermen \u2014 who are nominated members<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Delhi Municipal Corporation cannot vote in the election of Delhi\u2019s Mayor.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Aldermen?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-the-mcd-house-elections-have-been-stalled-for-the-third-time\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What was the case in the Supreme Court about?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking the debarment of nominated members from voting in the mayoral elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petitioner had referred to the <\/span><b>Article 243R of the Constitution<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which says that \u201call the seats in a Municipality shall be filled by persons chosen by direct election from the territorial constituencies in the Municipal area and for this purpose, each Municipal area shall be divided into territorial constituencies to be known as wards\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What did the Supreme Court say?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court said that nominated members cannot vote in the election for the post of mayor of the Municipal Corporation as the constitutional provision is very clear in this regard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMayoral polls: nominated members can\u2019t vote, says SC\u201d published in The Hindu on 14th February 2023. What is the News? The Supreme Court has said that the aldermen \u2014 who are nominated members of the Delhi Municipal Corporation cannot vote in the election of Delhi\u2019s Mayor. What&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mayoral-polls-nominated-members-cant-vote-says-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mayoral polls: nominated members can\u2019t vote, says SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-226516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}