Municipal corporation polls likely to be postponed in Maharashtra
The Hindu
Mumbai and Pune will get govt.-appointed administrators
Continued delay in reorganisation of wards due to COVID-19 pandemic is likely to result in the postponement of elections to municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including those in Mumbai, Pune and Thane, to April-May this year.
The corporations where the tenure of the elected bodies ends by mid-March are likely to get government-appointed administrators.
The municipal corporations and zilla parishad elections will be a test of the sitting tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. The ongoing row after Supreme Court scrapped the political reservation for OBCs has also put the State government on the back foot. The government, however, was given a breather by the court after it directed State to provide data on OBCs to State Backward Class Commission and asked the commission to submit an interim report. All parties in the State are unanimous in their demand to not hold elections until OBC reservation is restored.
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