Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announces that elections for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation will be held by December, following the dissolution of the existing civic board and the corporation’s current administrator-led administration. The outlets report that the civic body is under an Administrator because of an administrative deadlock, linked to the Trinamool Congress-controlled board and the resignation of Mayor Firhad Hakim. With no new civic body being formed, elections are planned so that elected representatives can take over after the polls. Business Line and The Hindu both state that the goal is to complete the process within the year and hand back the corporation to elected members through elections. Times of India adds that the administrator-led arrangement will be handed over to elected representatives after the municipal polls, with expectations of a new board by early December. The reports present the December timeline as a plan to restore elected governance to the corporation after the current governance arrangement remains in place.