Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Sunday that the state government would inform him Election The commission said that it would not be convenient to hold local and municipal elections in view of the ongoing rainy season in the state.
The State Election Commission on Friday announced that polls to 92 Nagar Parishads and four Nagar Panchayats in Maharashtra will be held on August 18. Elections will be held for local urban bodies in Pune, Sangli, Solapur, Kolhapur, Nashik, Dhule, Nandurbar, Jalgaon , Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, Amravati and Buldhana districts.
After Shinde offered prayers at the temple of Lord Vitthal in Pandharpur town of neighboring Solapur district on the occasion of Ashadhi Ekadashi, some journalists asked him about the local and municipal elections to be held in the state.
The CM said that it is the rainy season now and due to rain there are some limits on everything. He said, “Many districts are receiving heavy rains, and flood situation is also prevailing at some places. In this situation, our entire administrative machinery is engaged in mitigating and controlling the flood situation.”
“We will request the Election Commission and tell us that it will be inconvenient to hold elections during the rainy season,” he said. When asked about the issue of reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the upcoming elections, Shinde is hearing the issue in the Supreme Court. “I met the Solicitor General India Tushar Mehta and urged him to present the state’s side in the court. I am sure the OBC reservation, which was cancelled, will be restored.”
The BJP had earlier opposed holding local body elections until the OBC quota was reinstated by the Supreme Court in March last year. But, the party is now in power in the state with the Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, whose rebellion against the Shiv Sena leadership triggered the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government last month. A three-judge bench of the apex court had earlier said that reservation in favor of OBCs in local bodies in Maharashtra cannot exceed 50 per cent of the total seats reserved for SCs, STs and OBCs.
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