Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on friday told the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court that it will conduct elections for urban local bodies within a time-frame of two months.
Additional Advocate General Jaideep Narain Mathur submitted an undertaking in this regard before the division bench of Justice Devi Prasad Singh and Justice S C Chaurasia hearing four petitions challenging the process of appointing administrators in urban local bodies. The bench reserved its verdict after hearing the petitions.
Mathur later said he told the court that government will wait for a week to receive the 2011 census data failing which notification will be issued after completing reservation process on the basis of data of Census 2001 and elections will be conducted within two months time. The five-year tenure of urban local bodies in the state had expired on November 15 following which the state government had issued an order to appoint administrators on November 13 after it failed to issue the poll notification due to unavailability of Census 2011 data. PTI