Urban Local Body Elections in Port Blair: Social Engineering among city Voters
Journal Title: Journal of Advanced Research in Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Port Blair city, the capital of Union Terrirtory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands is a set of multi-lingual, multi – ethnic and multi- culture center. Time and again it has been extended its boundary, number of population and its political character that we ever seen any city in India. To study the electoral behavior of its voters is really interesting and significant .Since its inception in 1958, every five years of interval, the election to small city has been conducting without interruption is well establish fact . The last Municipal Council’s elections was held on 20.09.2015 to elect 24 wards councilors along with three tier Panchayat institutions. The voters of the city have witnessed many changes in elections 2010 and 2015. In many respect, the 2015 elections of Port Blair city has significantly different from its previous 2010 elections. The study area of the paper is to high light the changing behavour of voters , who are divided in the line of language, regional identity, but not like caste and community.
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Swapan K. Biswas
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