India, Jan. 2 -- With many instances of ruling alliance candidates getting elected unopposed in the local body elections, the State Election Commission (SEC) has sought reports from various authorities to check if there was either coercion or allurement involved in getting opposing candidates to withdraw. The SEC proclaimed that it would not allow the returning officers (ROs) of these wards to announce the election of the ruling alliance candidates until the reports were submitted.

There is at least one BJP candidate each in the Pimpri-Chinchwad, Jalgaon and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar civic bodies who has been elected unopposed, while five BJP and four Shiv Sena candidates are expected to be elected unopposed in the Kalyan-Dombivli munic...