On May 6, the Supreme Court issued an interim order directing the Maharashtra State Election Commission to conduct long-pending local body elections, which have been stalled since 2022 due to ongoing litigation over OBC reservation. The Court ruled that elections should proceed based on the OBC reservation framework that existed before the July 2022 Banthia Commission report. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and NK Singh instructed the Election Commission to notify elections within four weeks a