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ULB polls deferred in view of turmoil 8/4/2016 11:00:27 PM Saqib Junaid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Aug 4: The uncertainty over holding of Urban Local Bodies and Panchayat elections continues as authorities have decided to defer the polls in view of the ongoing unrest in Kashmir. The government had decided to hold Municipal elections in May and Panchayat elections in June this year. However, polls were deferred in view of state budget session of the Legislature which started from May 25 and ended in June in Srinagar. Now the ongoing crisis have all most made it impossible to hold the polls this year, an official said. "We were sure that polls will be held in August-September 2016 as all arrangements were finalized but now the unrest has hit the timing of the polls," the official said. "Now the government has to take the call over holding of these polls. We will conduct the polls only on the request of the state government," he said. In Municipal elections, there will be polls on 70 committees, six councils and two corporations. The ULB polls were held in J&K after a span of 23-years in January 2005. At that time there were 14.5 lakh voters for 76 ULBs. However, the civic polls could not be held since 2011 despite the previous government, the National Conference and Congress had set up several deadlines about holding the elections. The NC-Congress government had set October-November 2011 the April 2012 and later April 2013 as deadlines for holding the civic polls but failed to execute their own decision. Since then, the uncertainty has been looming large over holding of civic polls in the state resulting lapse crores of central government funds. But after coming into power, the Cabinet of PDP-BJP government led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in 2015 gave the nod for holding of civic polls in the state. As per the Governor's directions before the PDP-BJP formed government, the Election Department had completed all formalities for holding the Municipal elections to 78 civic bodies by publishing final electoral rolls and lists of the Reserved Wards on March 31.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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