The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra State Election Commission and all the State authorities to ensure that process for local bodies' election is “immediately commenced” in accordance with the recommendation made by the dedicated commission for reservation to OBC.
Earlier, the SC had set aside the quota for OBC in local bodies’ polls in Maharashtra for lack of empirical data. The SC, which was informed by the SEC that as of today election programme in respect of 367 local bodies has already commenced, said that the poll process be taken forward on the basis of the to court's May 4 order which had said that poll programme be notified within two weeks.