Panchayati Raj, local body elections in Rajasthan set to get delayed

Elections to the Panchayati Raj institutions and municipality section bodies successful Rajasthan are acceptable to get delayed with the State authorities extending the tenure of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) Political Representation Commission till September 30. Seats successful the upcoming polls volition beryllium reserved based connected the commission’s report.

The panel’s word has been extended for the 3rd time, stalling the predetermination process. The Rajasthan High Court had successful November 2025 directed the State authorities to behaviour the polls by April 15. The commission, constituted connected May 9, 2025, was tasked with examining and facilitating preservation for OBCs.

Population information submitted from districts to the committee were recovered to beryllium “incomplete and inaccurate” successful respective instances, according to sources.

The State authorities is believed to beryllium moving connected the “triple test” mandated by the Supreme Court for providing OBC preservation successful section assemblage elections based connected empirical information and surveys alternatively than political, societal oregon economical backwardness. The triple trial requires mounting up a dedicated commission, specifying the section body-wise proportionality of the quota based connected the panel’s recommendations, and ensuring a 50% ceiling.

While the State authorities claimed to beryllium taking enactment to fortify the model for governmental practice of OBC communities, the Opposition Congress connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026) accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of postponing the elections retired of the fearfulness of defeat.

“The BJP is not successful a presumption to look the radical successful the contiguous circumstances, erstwhile its misrule stands exposed and the nationalist is fed up with the misgovernance during the past two-and-a-half years,” State Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra said. He added that the word of each section bodies and Panachayati Raj institutions, but 112 Panchayat Samitis, had already ended.

He besides questioned the government’s volition to behaviour the polls based connected the electoral rolls of January 2025, contempt the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) workout having led to a caller voters database aft the deletion of absent, shifted and dormant electors.