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The Supreme Court has permitted Maharashtra to hold local body elections. However, the results for all bodies, including those breaching the 50 percent reservation cap for OBCs, will await the court's final decision. A three-judge bench will hear the OBC reservation pleas on January 21, 2026.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Maharashtra government and its state election commission to conduct local body elections and made it clear that poll results of all bodies, including where 50 per cent ceiling on quota have been breached, will depend on its verdict.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi also said that as many as 27 pleas concerning OBC reservation in local bodies will be taken up for final hearing by a three-judge bench on January 21, 2026.
In May 2025, the bench had directed the Maharashtra government and the SEC to conduct the long-pending elections within four months, and to grant OBC reservation based on the legal framework that existed prior to the Banthia Commission report.
At the outset, senior advocate Balbir Singh, appearing for the state election commission (SEC), said that 50 per cent ceiling on quota has been breached only in 40 municipal councils and 17 nagar panchayats.
He said there are a total 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats where the poll process has begun and there are "only 40 municipal councils, out of 246, where reservation is exceeding 50 per cent and similarly, there are 17, out of 42 nagar panchyats, where this ceiling is breached".
Taking the statement into consideration, the bench said the SEC can proceed with the election but the results will be dependent on the final outcome of the case.
The bench also said the state poll panel may proceed with the elections for other zila parishad, panchayat samiti and nagar parishad, where the issue of breach of 50 per cent quota is not there. However, the results of these local bodies will also depend on the final verdict in the case, the bench said.
"Today we are making only a temporary arrangement, till matter is finally heard. On January 21, a three-judge bench can hear. There should not be any objection from either side," the CJI said.
Earlier, the bench had pulled up the SEC for non-compliance of its order and directed it to hold local body polls, stalled since 2022, to be completed by January 31, 2026 without further extension.
Earlier on November 19, the bench had asked the state government to consider deferring the process of nomination for local body elections till the issue of grant of 27 per cent reservation for the Other Backward Class (OBC) is adjudicated upon by it.
Senior advocate Vikas Singh argued that previous orders, including a July 2022 direction by a three-judge bench led by Justice A M Khanwilkar, since retired, approving the Banthia Committee recommendations, had created confusion.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the state government, had said that state authorities acted under a "bona fide interpretation" of the court's orders.
In December 2021, the top court stayed the quota, holding that it could only be implemented after fulfilling the triple-test requirement laid down in earlier judgments.
The triple test contains the establishment of a commission to study backwardness, and second, determination of the specific proportion of reservation based on the commission's findings and third, ensuring that the total reservation for SCs, STs, and OBCs does not exceed 50 per cent of the total seats.
The state had constituted the Jayant Kumar Banthia Commission in March 2022 to determine empirical data for OBC reservation.
The Commission submitted its report in July 2022.
In May 2025, the bench directed Maharashtra to conduct the long-pending elections within four months, and to grant OBC reservation based on the legal framework that existed prior to the Banthia report.
A few weeks ago, the bench noted that this order had been misconstrued by authorities as permitting reservations beyond 50 per cent, and clarified that no such excess was allowed.
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