Gujarat Congress today requested the State Election Commission to expedite the process to hold elections in Panchayati Raj institutions such as the district panchayats and taluka panchayats across the state.
A Congress delegation led by party general secretary Nishit Vyas today met the state election commissioner Varesh Sinha and handed over a memorandum.
The memorandum urged Sinha to start the election process at the earliest, as the terms of several of these bodies are about to expire soon.
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The elections to 253 municipalities, 208 taluka panchayats, 26 district panchayats and six municipal corporations were expected to be held in October.
However, the Supreme Court recently stayed elections to municipalities and municipal corporations.
The Congress leaders said the stay didn't stop elections to district and taluka panchayat bodies.
But the BJP government in Gujarat was not interested in holding the elections at this juncture because of the political mood brought about by the agitation of the Patel community for quota, Congress said.
