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A caller gully of tons was conducted to find the divisions reserved for women successful the Kochi Corporation for the upcoming section assemblage polls aft the archetypal gully was questioned successful the High Court for erroneously reserving a part that had already been reserved for women successful the 2020 elections.
Devankulangara—now Division 38 and antecedently Division 32 earlier delimitation—was mistakenly reserved for women successful the archetypal gully for the 2nd successive election. According to statutory provisions and the State Election Commission’s guidelines, immoderate part reserved for women successful the erstwhile predetermination should beryllium excluded and included successful the wide class for the existent election.
K.A. Vijayakumar, a erstwhile councillor who represented the part from 2015 to 2020, filed a petition successful the Kerala High Court challenging the preservation and seeking the division’s exclusion from the database of seats reserved for women. Devankulangara was among the 43 divisions shortlisted to find the 38 divisions to beryllium reserved for women. Following delimitation, the fig of divisions successful the Corporation went up from 74 to 76, resulting successful 2 further seats reserved for women.
Objections were besides raised regarding the preservation of divisions 56 and 66. In summation to Devankulangara, the recently created Stadium Division (Division 34) was besides dropped from the database of 43 divisions selected for the gully to find reserved divisions. Interestingly, Thammanam Division (41), which was reserved for Scheduled Caste pistillate successful the archetypal draw, remained successful the aforesaid class successful the 2nd gully arsenic well.
Thazhuppu (57) and Konthuruthy (52) were the different 2 divisions reserved for Scheduled Caste women. The divisions reserved for women are: Fort Kochi (1), Kalvathy (2), Eeraveli (3), Cheralayi (5), Mattancherry (6), Chakkamadom (7), Karuvelippady (8), Gandhi Nagar (12), Kathrikadavu (13), Pottakkuzhi (20), Vaduthala West (24), Elamakkara North (26), Kunnumpuram (28), Ponekkara (29), Changampuzha (31), Karanakodam (35), Puthiya Road (36), Padivattom (37), Chakkaraparambu (39), Chalikkavattom (40), Elamkulam (42), Ponnurunni East (45), and Thevara (53).
