News India Xtra@newsIndiaxtraThe Calcutta High Court has stopped the State Election Commission from issuing a notification for civic polls in West Bengal. The order came on Friday while a division bench was hearing an appeal.
Polls for the Kolkata and Howrah municipal corporations had been expected later this month or next. The bench also questioned whether the redrawing of Kolkata's wards from 144 to 209 is legally valid.
Opposition leaders Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of Congress and Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya of the CPI(M) welcomed the decision.
