The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) has announced a revised poll plan for two zilla parishads and 106 city councils with around 11,000 seats, even before the state government could request the polling authority to postpone the local bodies election so that it could be held with OBC quota instead of converting the seats to general category. If the legal tangle over OBC quota scrapping continues then, experts expect, a similar decision is likely for the elections slated for early next year including polls for municipal corporations as well as other zilla parishad, which is like a mini assembly election. 

As per the revised programme, the polling at the reserved seats will be held on December 21 as scheduled earlier, and OBC seats that have been converted to the general category will have the polling on January 18, 2022. The counting of votes of all seats will be held on January 19.