Delhi's MCD poll dates to be announced today

NEW DELHI: State election commission is likely to announce dates for Delhi Municipal Corporation elections today. As per the reports, the EC will hold a press conference at 4pm.
Originally scheduled to be held in the first half of 2022, Delhi civic polls were postponed after the Centre's decision to unify three erstwhile municipal corporations into the MCD.
BJP has been in power in the civic bodies for the past 15 years. It won the 2007 elections when Municipal Corporation of Delhi was a unified body. The party was also victorious in the first election after the trifurcation in 2012, and then in 2017.
It's going to be a three-cornered fight in the first civic poll after reunification.
In 2017, BJP had won 181 seats in three corporations East, North and South - combined, while AAP emerged victorious on 49 and Congress on 31.
The elections were held on 272 wards in 2017. This year, following a delimitation exercise, the Union ministry of home affairs has reduced the number of municipal wards to 250. The state election commission has already notified the wards that will be reserved for women and SC candidates.