Civic polls to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which has been functioning without an elected body for over three years now, may not happen before the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress leaders had assured of holding polls for the civic body in December.
A senior Congress Minister from Bengaluru said that while delimitation exercise was completed, the government is still pondering on drafting reservation for the Other Backward Communities (OBC) reservation. “Elections in December now looks unrealistic as the government is unsure how to formulate OBC reservations matrix. The election for the BBMP may happen after the completion of Lok Sabha polls,” the Minister said.
For the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women, the government has population data but for the OCB it is unavailable. Preparing reservation matrix based on randomisation may not be accepted by the community leaders, the Minister claimed. However, OBC reservation matrix has always been done based on random selection for decades now.
