BJP urges Odisha SEC for holding polls to ULBs, panchayats
By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR : The BJP on Tuesday urged the State Election Commission to conduct simultaneous polls to the ULBs and the three-tier panchayati raj establishments in conformity with Constitution and the October 19, 2006 order of a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court.
A delegation of the BJP led by social gathering spokesperson Pitambar Acharya met State Election Commissioner Aditya Prasad Padhi and submitted a memorandum urging him to strategy the Orissa High Court for course to the State authorities to fulfil the constitutional mandate. Highlighting the necessity for well timed polls, a five-member constitutional bench of the apex court docket had stated, the Election Commission is obligation certain to finish election earlier than the expiry of the five-year time period of the elected our bodies.
It is important for all of the state governments to recognise the importance of the SEC and it shall abide by the instructions of the Commission in the identical method during which it follows the instructions of the Election Commission of India in the course of the elections for Parliament and the State Legislatures, the SC order stated.
