| A cloud of uncertainty has enveloped the GHMC polls with Wednesday’s
High Court stay order. The polls are supposed to be conducted before
August end with dates not clashing with the forthcoming Ganesh
Chaturthi and Ramzan festivals.
With court listing the matter for third week of August and State
Election Commission (SEC) stating that it would need at least 28 days
to conduct elections, the likelihood of polls being held in the next
couple of months is pretty remote, officials admit. Not a single
municipal official is ready to say when the polls would be held even
later.
GHMC Commissioner S.P. Singh in a brief interaction with
presspersons on Wednesday said the government has to take a decision on
the creamy layer for Backward Classes. As far as GHMC was concerned, it
had followed all the rules and regulations diligently.
He pointed out that the court had not adversely commented on either delimitation of divisions or BCs enumeration.
Again the government has to decide whether it intended to approach
the Supreme Court in the matter, he said and did not want to hazard any
guess on when the polls might be held. |
