Karnataka seeks 3 months more to hold GBA polls, wants to push deadline to Sept 30

The Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) has written to the Karnataka State Election Commission seeking an hold of the deadline for conducting Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) elections till September 30, citing a terrible strain on disposable unit owing to the ongoing nationalist Census and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

This comes adjacent arsenic the Supreme Court had successful January acceptable a June 30, 2026 deadline for Bengaluru civic polls. The polls person been owed since September 2020. There has been overmuch cynicism implicit whether polls volition beryllium held connected clip wrong the apex tribunal acceptable deadline, and the authorities has present again sought an hold of 3 months.