Hyderabad, Dec. 3 -- A Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Minister, in this case Maharashtra's Devendra Fadnavis has found fault with his state's Chief Electoral Officer, for postponing polling for two dozen municipal councils andnagarpanchayats from December 2 to December 20. It is apparently because of the consequence of the postponement: The Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court's refusal to allow counting of votes and declaration of results on December 3 for the remaining 264 local bodies.

The Postponement Controversy

He was quoted by theHindustan Timesas saying, "I do not know who the State Election Commission is consulting, but everybody including legal experts, has said the postponement was uncalled for. I have no personal grudge against t...