ET gathers that availability of adequate security personnel is the key concern at the poll panel s end given five other state elections are also lined up for year end.
The party, which earlier regretted boycotting the 2018 urban local body and panchayat polls, said the thinking had changed; expectations that elections to these bodies might be held this year
The Centre’s formula on Punjab envisages reopening of its 1970 award on Chandigarh and allied territorial issues and the 1976 order on sharing of river waters between Punjab and Haryana.
Political parties in the Union Territory had alleged that the directive was an attempt to influence the Assembly elections likely to be held next year.