OBC seats will 'open' up for all: SEC secretary Kurundkar | Kolhapur News
Kolhapur: The seats reserved for the other backward category (OBC) candidates will be converted into open category in the wake of the recent Supreme Court order, secretary of the State Election Commission Kiran Kurundkar told TOI on Tuesday. The state election commission is waiting for the Covid situation to ease to schedule the elections for five municipal corporations, two Zilla Parishads and over 100 nagar panchayats, which are over due. The SC has struck down the law mandating 27% flat reservations for the OBC candidates in the local bodies from grampanchayats to ZPs and municipal corpo...