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2-child norm, no-tax dues must for contesting civic body polls
The New Indian Express Sambalpur
|November 28, 2025
AS Jharkhand gears up for Municipal polls next year, the State Election Commission has issued guidelines for the same, stating that candidates with more than two children will be barred from contesting elections, if the last child was born after February 9, 2013.
The panel has also clarified that adopted children and twins will also be counted as children.
This story is from the November 28, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Sambalpur.
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