SC gives four months to Maharashtra EC to complete local body elections

The Supreme Court yesterday directed the Maharashtra State Election Commission to notify local body elections in the State within four weeks. The local body polls in the state have been stalled since 2022 due to litigation relating to the implementation of the reservation for the Other Backward Classes. 

A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said, the elections to the local bodies will be held as per the OBC



reservation which existed prior to the submission of the Banthia Commission report in July 2022. 

The Bench fixed a timeline for concluding the local body polls and asked the State panel to complete the election process within a period of four months. The top court said in its order that the Constitutional mandate for democracy at the grassroot level must be respected and ensured.