The elections of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation's second Mayor and Deputy Mayor have been postponed to 3 January.
Earlier, the elections were scheduled to be held on 30 December.
Further, the election's venue, too, has been changed from the Jubilee Hall to the GHMC's Council Hall at Tank Bund.
The process for the elections of GHMC 2nd and the city's 24th Mayor and the 25th Deputy Mayor will begin at 11am, with the filing of nominations.
At about 11.30am, elections will take place through a voice vote or "Division", if required.
Hyderabad District Collector Natrajan Gulzar is the Returning Officer for these elections.
As part of the power-sharing agreement, the MIM will contest for the Mayor's post, while the Congress will field its candidate for the Deputy Mayor's post.
As many as 150 GHMC corporators and 66 ex-officio members are set to exercise their franchise to elect the new Mayor and the Deputy Mayor.
The ex-officio members include 5 Lok Sabha MPs, 11 Rajya Sabha MPs, 25 MLAs and 25 MLCs.
However, co-option members will have no voting rights.
It may be mentioned here that Banda Karthika Redddy
resigned as the GHMC Mayor on 5 December, to facilitate the election of the MIM candidate for the post, as a part of the Congress-MIM agreement.
Similarly, Deputy Mayor Jaffer Hussain Meraj submitted his resignation on 16 Dec.
The Mayor's resignation was accepted by the GHMC in a special general body meeting held on 17 Dec. (INN)