Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday stated the state authorities would inform the Election Fee that it will not be handy to carry native and municipal polls within the state within the wake of the continued wet season.
The State Election Fee on Friday introduced that polls to 92 Nagar Parishads and 4 Nagar Panchayats in Maharashtra might be held on August 18. Elections might be held for native city our bodies in Pune, Sangli, Solapur, Kolhapur, Nashik, Dhule, Nandurbar, Jalgaon , Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, Amravati and Buldhana districts.
After Shinde supplied prayers at a temple of Lord Vitthal in Pandharpur city in neighboring Solapur district on the event of ‘Ashadhi Ekadashi’, some reporters requested him concerning the native and municipal elections due within the state.
The CM stated it’s the wet season proper now and there are some limitations on all the things as a result of downpour. “A number of districts are witnessing heavy rains, and flood state of affairs can also be prevailing at some locations. On this state of affairs, our whole administrative equipment is busy mitigating and controlling the flood state of affairs,” he stated.
“We’d urge and inform the Election Fee that holding elections in the course of the wet season can be inconvenient,” he stated. Requested concerning the problem of reservation for Different Backward Courses (OBCs) within the upcoming polls, Shinde the Supreme Courtroom is listening to the problem. “I had met Solicitor Common of India Tushar Mehta and urged him to current the state’s facet within the court docket. I’m certain the OBC reservation, which was revoked, might be restored,” he stated.
The BJP had earlier opposed the holding of native physique elections till the OBC quota, put aside by the Supreme Courtroom in March final 12 months, was reinstated. However ,the social gathering is now in energy within the state together with the Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, whose riot towards the Sena management triggered the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA authorities final month. A 3-judge bench of the apex court docket had earlier stated the reservation in favor of the OBCs within the native our bodies in Maharashtra can not exceed 50 per cent of the whole seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs taken collectively.
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