Chennai: The Supreme Court today questioned the Tamilnadu government for not holding local body elections till date in today’s hearing and asked to submit a report within two weeks on the final preparations for the elections.
The State government cited the revision of electoral rolls as the reason for delaying the polls.
K K Ramesh, a resident of Madurai, had filed a public interest litigation requesting the apex court to order the State to conduct the civic polls soon.
When the case came up for hearing today, the Tamilnadu government said the officials were updating the 2011 rolls and added that the election will be held once the process is completed.
The court then ordered the officials to submit a report within two weeks about the preparation for local body polls.
In a related development, reports stated that the term of special officers has been extended by a government order for the sixth time, by six months – that is, till 31 December.
The polls to elect representatives in local body-level has been in limbo for almost three years now. In their place, special officers have been executing their work.