Supreme Court has asked the Maharashtra State Election Commission to conduct civic and local body polls in districts with less rainfall.
The apex court said that they need not wait till October or November and can take polls in districts with heavy rains later.
The State Election Commissioner UPS Madan had earlier met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and impressed upon him the urgency and necessity of the implementation of Supreme Court order on the resumption of pre-poll process for civic and local body elections in Maharashtra.
Madan’s meeting was close on the heels of resumption of the local body pre-poll process by the SEC. The process was stopped on March 10 after the state government passed two laws transferring SEC’s powers on delimitation of wards and fixing a poll schedule to the state government.
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