<p>Mumbai: The counting of votes for the high-octave elections of nagar parishads (municipal councils) and nagar panchayats (town councils) will be taken up on December 21 following the elections on December 2 and December 20, the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bombay-high-court">Bombay High Court</a> said Tuesday.</p><p>The elections are being held in 288 local bodies which include 246 municipal councils and 42 town councils. </p><p>The elections were scheduled to be held on December 2 and counting was to be taken up on December 3. </p><p>However, the State Election Commission (SEC) postponed the elections in 24 local bodies to December 20 after it detected widespread irregularities in the appeals process related to rejected nomination papers.</p>.Maharashtra local body polls: Nitesh Rane targets Eknath Shinde over Sena workers campaigning for rival faction.<p>The order for counting the votes of polling on December 2 and December 20 together came from the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. </p><p>"The SEC is hereby directed not to publish the result on 3 December of the polls held on December 2. It is further directed that the same shall be declared along with the results of the election to be held on December 20,” Justice Rajnish Vyas and Justice Anil Kilor said in the order. </p><p>The ruling Maha Yuti alliance partners- BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi constituents - Congress, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) expressed their displeasure with the decision of the SEC to postpone the polls. </p>.SEC's 'misinterpretation of laws' caused high court to defer vote counting for local bodies polls: Chandrashekhar Bawankule.<p>“If the public mood is disclosed by declaring the result on December 3, it may materially affect the result of the polls to be held on December 20, Hence, the results have to be declared together and not in a phased manner,” the court noted.</p><p>Multiple petitions from candidates, parties and organizations have challenged the SEC’s decision to count votes and declare the results in a phase-wise manner.</p><p>Most prayed for a direction that the results of all wards within their respective municipal councils be declared on a single date in a non-bifurcated manner.</p>
<p>Mumbai: The counting of votes for the high-octave elections of nagar parishads (municipal councils) and nagar panchayats (town councils) will be taken up on December 21 following the elections on December 2 and December 20, the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bombay-high-court">Bombay High Court</a> said Tuesday.</p><p>The elections are being held in 288 local bodies which include 246 municipal councils and 42 town councils. </p><p>The elections were scheduled to be held on December 2 and counting was to be taken up on December 3. </p><p>However, the State Election Commission (SEC) postponed the elections in 24 local bodies to December 20 after it detected widespread irregularities in the appeals process related to rejected nomination papers.</p>.Maharashtra local body polls: Nitesh Rane targets Eknath Shinde over Sena workers campaigning for rival faction.<p>The order for counting the votes of polling on December 2 and December 20 together came from the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. </p><p>"The SEC is hereby directed not to publish the result on 3 December of the polls held on December 2. It is further directed that the same shall be declared along with the results of the election to be held on December 20,” Justice Rajnish Vyas and Justice Anil Kilor said in the order. </p><p>The ruling Maha Yuti alliance partners- BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi constituents - Congress, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) expressed their displeasure with the decision of the SEC to postpone the polls. </p>.SEC's 'misinterpretation of laws' caused high court to defer vote counting for local bodies polls: Chandrashekhar Bawankule.<p>“If the public mood is disclosed by declaring the result on December 3, it may materially affect the result of the polls to be held on December 20, Hence, the results have to be declared together and not in a phased manner,” the court noted.</p><p>Multiple petitions from candidates, parties and organizations have challenged the SEC’s decision to count votes and declare the results in a phase-wise manner.</p><p>Most prayed for a direction that the results of all wards within their respective municipal councils be declared on a single date in a non-bifurcated manner.</p>