Chandigarh, Jan. 3 -- It's official! The last mayor of the current Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) House will be appointed on January 29. Deputy commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav, who is the prescribed authority for the election, reviewed the arrangements on Friday.

In Chandigarh, while the elected councillors enjoy a five-year term, the mayor, senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor are picked through indirect elections every year.

This will be the first time in the city's history that elections for the three posts will take place through a "show-of-hands" by councillors, instead of the secret ballot system. The decision to do away with the secret ballot system was taken recently, in wake of the 2024 vote-rigging fiasco, where the th...