Chennai: Urban local body polls in Tamilnadu may not be held by the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court due to delay in the delimitation of wards in newly-formed Municipalities and reservation of posts in nine districts.
On 27 September, the top court had ordered that urban local body polls should be conducted in four months.
Though the voters’ lists for urban local bodies were released on Thursday, thoses for local bodies that were recently upgraded to municipal corporations and municipalities have not been released.
Meanwhile, the Tamilnadu BJP has written to the State Election Commissioner, demanding single-phase elections to urban local bodies.
In his letter, R C Paul Kangaraj, State president of the BJP’s advocate wing, said single-phase elections would help restrict the undue influence of the ruling party.
He said the State Election Commission had acted subservient to the DMK in the recently held local body elections, and the BJP State unit was expecting the same during the urban local body polls.