Notify local body elections in Maharashtra: Supreme Court to State poll panel

Supreme Court Directs Holding Local Body Polls In Maharashtra

In an interim order passed on Tuesday, the Supreme Court directed the Maharashtra government and the State Election Commission (SEC) to hold local body polls in the state, reserving seats for OBC as existed prior to the 2022 J.K. Banthia commission.

Notify local body elections in Maharashtra: Supreme Court to State poll panel

Supreme Court directs Maharashtra SEC to notify local body elections within four weeks, OBC reservation to remain unchanged.

SC Cracks Whip on Maharashtra: Local Body Polls Must Be Held Within Four Months, Ends 2-Year OBC Quota Deadlock - The News21

New Delhi: In a major push to restore grassroots democracy in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court on Monday, May 6, directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to notify and complete long-pending local body elections within four months. The polls had been stalled for nearly two years due to legal tussles over Other Backward Class (OBC) reservations. […]

SC directs state poll panel to notify local body elections in Maharashtra

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra state election commission to notify local body elections in the state within four weeks. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said the contentious issue of OBC reservation in local body polls of Maharashtra will be as it existed prior to the 2022 Banthia Commission report. The top court accepted the commission report which recommended census to fix exact data on OBCs…

"Reservation Has Become Like Train Compartments, Once In, They Don’t Want To Let Others In", Says Supreme Court Judge Surya Kant In Maharashtra OBC Quota Case - The Commune

Caste-based reservation in India has come under sharp scrutiny from the Supreme Court, with Justice Surya Kant—who is set to become the next Chief Justice of India—drawing a striking analogy during a hearing on local body polls in Maharashtra. “Reservation in the country has become like train compartments. People who have got in don’t want to let others come in,” Justice Kant observed while hearing a batch of petitions on the implementation of O…