Summary:
“We have no other option but to wait till the Supreme Court order comes,” Mukherjee said. (File)After the Trinamool Congress’s sweep of the panchayat elections, opposition parties are banking on a July 3 hearing in the Supreme Court in which the fate of 20,067 seats won “uncontested” by the TMC will be decided. We are ready to file fresh nominations and go for polls in these areas. While opposition parties are hopeful that the SC will order a repoll, they are apprehensive that fresh nominations and elections will result in fresh incidents of violence. “If the Supreme Court gives a repoll order for such seats, the process will have to be started afresh by the State Election Commission..