The MVA government is all set to ask the Supreme Court to postpone the local body elections, after the Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) stayed polls to Other Backward Classes (OBC) seats. It will seek more time to collect empirical data for supporting the quantum of the quota to be given as per the population of the beneficiary class in each district.

The Cabinet, during a meeting on Wednesday, discussed ways for relief from a political crisis the state has landed in following the SC’s order. The polls are scheduled on December 21. Months after an order of the SC in March, the state restored the OBC political quota through an ordinance, but the court stalled it citing the lack of empirical inquiry into the nature and implications of the backwardness, which was mandated.