HC to SEC: Why Howrah dropped from poll schedule?

Kolkata: The Bengal advocate general on Thursday sought Calcutta High Court’s permission to file an affidavit correcting his submission made before the division bench of Chief Justice

Prakash Shrivastava

and Justice

Rajarshi Bharadwaj

on the

Howrah

Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2021.A division bench of justices Shampa Sarkar and Bibhas Ranjan De allowed the advocate general (AG) to do so.The division bench also directed the state government and the State Election Commission (SEC) to file affidavits clarifying why elections to the Howrah civic body was “excluded” from the poll schedule of January 22. The court further directed

SEC

to clarify why the urban development and municipal affairs department’s proposal was not accepted and whether the exclusion of Howrah polls would amount to violation of the court order of December 23. The division bench wanted the respondents to clarify whether the state proposal was an “eyewash”. The CJ-led division bench would take up the AG’s revised affidavit, along with other civic poll petitions, on January 6.Advocate general S N Mookherjee moved HC on Thursday following a petition by KMC poll candidate Mousumi Roy praying for proceedings suo motu against a constitutional authority if found that s/he had “misled the court”.
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