The Jammu and Kashmir government is likely to defer the municipal elections scheduled in October to January 2019, sources said. This comes after two major political parties — the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) — announced they were boycotting the polls. A decision announcing deferment of the municipal polls is likely to be taken at the State Administrative Council (SAC) meeting chaired by Governor Satya Pal Malik on Wednesday. The panchayat polls were scheduled for November-December. “The schedule already announced for the panchayat polls will remain…
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