India News: VILLUPURAM: Villupuram additional district judge S Rajasimmavarman sentenced 20 people to life imprisonment on Tuesday for murdering two people in vio.
The HLC is looking at working around a simultaneous poll plan with "minimum possible" legal and constitutional amendments, making panchayat and urban local body poll synchronisation trickier as independent state election commissions as well as delimitation exercises are involved. Another factor is that political feedback has also not been encouraging on synching of local polls.
The by-elections were held on Thursday to elect members of 18 gram panchayat wards, four municipality wards and one municipal corporation ward | Latest News India
Nitish Kumar s Janata Dal (United) has supported holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies but not with local body polls. The party has told the high-level committee on one nation, one election that it supports holding Lok Sabha and state assembly polls together.