{"id":7526,"date":"2019-10-14T18:35:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2019-10-14T19:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:43:59","slug":"jaipur-mayor-not-to-be-directly-elected-by-public-ashok-gehlot-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/jaipur-mayor-not-to-be-directly-elected-by-public-ashok-gehlot-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaipur mayor not to be elected directly by public: Ashok Gehlot cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jaipur: The\nheads of local bodies in Rajasthan including Jaipur mayor will not be directly\nelected by the public. Taking a U-tun, the Ashok Gehlot cabinet on Monday announced\nthat the elected councillors (ward parshads) will elect the head of the local\nbodies, not the public. &nbsp;The Ashok Gehlot\ngovernment has reversed its own decision taken in the first cabinet meeting after\ncoming to power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabinet Shanti\nDhariwal defended the government\u2019s decision and told media persons that conducting\na direct election for the mayor and the head of the local body can end up being\na law and order nightmare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are not\ntaking this decision fearing defeat in the elections. We have decided to\nabolish the direct election system because we believe this may lead to communal\ntension in certain areas. In the interest of maintaining communal harmony, we\nhave decided that the mayors and heads of local bodies will be elected by the elected\ncouncillors, not the public,\u201d Dhariwal said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elections\nfor nearly 193 local bodies including Jaipur will be held in four phases of\nRajasthan. The elections are expected to take place by the end of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elections\nin the first phase for 52 local bodies will be held in November. They include Jaipur\nMunicipal Corporation, Udaipur Municipal Corporation, Jodhpur Municipal Corporation,\nBikaner Municipal Corporation and Kota Municipal Corporation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaipur: The heads of local bodies in Rajasthan including Jaipur mayor will not be directly elected by the public. Taking a U-tun, the Ashok Gehlot cabinet on Monday announced that the elected councillors (ward parshads) will elect the head of the local bodies, not the public. &nbsp;The Ashok Gehlot government has reversed its own decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jaipur mayor not to be elected directly by public: Ashok Gehlot cabinet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/jaipur-mayor-not-to-be-directly-elected-by-public-ashok-gehlot-cabinet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jaipur mayor not to be elected directly by public: Ashok Gehlot cabinet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jaipur: The heads of local bodies in Rajasthan including Jaipur mayor will not be directly elected by the public. 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