MUMBAI, Jan. 7 -- Even as the controversy surrounding Mahayuti candidates being elected unopposed rages on, the State Election Commission (SEC) has made it clear that there will be no polling in wards where there is just one candidate in the fray for the January 15 civic elections. The poll body also clarified that the None Of The Above (NOTA) option cannot be considered as an actual candidate. The SEC clarified this on Tuesday as the opposition's protest grew louder over the "uncontested election" of 69 candidates in nine municipal corporations in the state, including 43 in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. All but one of these candidates are from the three ruling parties in the Mahayuti coalition - BJP (44), Shiv Sena (22) and NCP (2). Meanwhile, eight Mumbai residents on Tuesday moved the Bombay HC, alleging that a polling official refused to accept their nomination forms as independent candidates in four south Mumbai wards due to the direct interference of Maharashtra assembly speaker and Colaba MLA Rahul Narwekar. P4...