The State government issued the final notification of the newly delimited 225 wards in the city’s civic administration area on Tuesday. While this is seen as a step closer to holding the much-delayed civic polls in the city, multiple leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said they have decided to challenge this notification as their objections have not been considered and suitable changes made.
They allege that the delimitation was done “unscientifically” and to “benefit the ruling party”, a charge Congress then in opposition made against the earlier delimitation draft done by the previous BJP regime, giving the city’s residents a sense of deja vu.
This, if it finds admission in the High Court of Karnataka, will likely delay the civic polls further. Senior minister and city MLA Ramalinga Reddy, who heads a Congress party internal committee on Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections, has been saying that the government will hold civic polls in December 2023, in line with the High Court directions.
