Overview
- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation began its first phase of training on December 29 with three daily sessions across seven city venues for presiding and polling officers.
- Hands-on modules cover linking EVM ballot and control units, mock polls, poll-station setup, sealing and handover of machines, and post-poll documentation and reporting.
- Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar trained about 8,000 officers and employees at four institutions, and returning officer G Sreekanth ordered show-cause notices for absentees with cases to be filed if required.
- Mumbai Police arrested Iftikhar Ahmed after an alleged assault on a static surveillance team nodal officer in Vile Parle, booking him under multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections as the probe continues.
- MNS general secretary Snehal Jadhav resigned from the party, citing exclusion from the selection process for Mumbai’s ward 192 candidate.