The Supreme Court on Tuesday criticised the Maharashtra State Election Commission for its failure to adhere to an earlier timeline set by the court to conduct local body elections, Live Law reported. The court set January 31, 2026, as the final deadline.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi extended the deadline for conducting the polls as a “one-time concession”, the Hindustan Times reported. No further extension would be granted, it said.
The elections are for all local bodies in the state, including the zilla parishads, panchayats and municipal corporations.
If any other logistic assistance was required from the court, an application must be filed before October 31, Live Law quoted the bench as saying.
The court also said that the delimitation exercise must be concluded by October 31, adding that it cannot be cited as a grounds to defer the polls.
The elections in 27 municipal corporations, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, 243 nagar parishads and 289 panchayats, have been stalled since 2022 amid a case in the Supreme Court pertaining to reservations for the Other Backward Classes.
This has meant that most urban and rural bodies in the state have been operated without elected representatives. The terms of these representatives for various bodies ended between 2020 and 2022.
On May 6, the court in an interim order directed local body elections in the state to...
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