No dates for Maharashtra local body polls announced, clarifies State Election Commission
State Election Commissioner U P S Madan has said only the notification regarding the cut-off date for updating the voters' list was issued. Local body elections are now on hold for over one-and-a-half years while in the case of a few other local bodies, it has been pending for almost three years now.
Madan was responding after a few media outlets reported that the July 5 notification mentioned September -October as the period to hold local body elections this year in Maharashtra. Maharashtra Election Commission Friday issued a clarification that it has not announced any dates for the much-delayed local body elections in the state.
“The State Election Commission has issued the notification regarding the cut-off date for the updation of voters’ list. The notification does not have an announcement of the election programme,” said State Election Commissioner U P S Madan.
Madan was responding after a few media outlets reported that the July 5 notification mentioned September -October as the period to hold local body elections this year in Maharashtra.
He said a cut-off date was decided to use the Assembly voters’ list for all local body elections. For this, July 1, 2023, was decided as the cut-off date for the upcoming local body polls, Madan clarified. He said that the voters’ list for the Assembly election is used for local body polls and no separate lists are prepared. The Assembly voters’ list is used by dividing them into wards.
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