Overview
- The Karnataka government and the State Election Commission, which filed in the Supreme Court on Monday, asked to shift the Greater Bengaluru polls deadline from June 30 to September 30.
- The poll panel had days earlier said voting across five new corporations could occur June 14–24, but it now says the same officials are tied up with Census work and a Special Intensive Revision of rolls.
- Congress leaders held strategy meetings as they prepare for either schedule, while D K Shivakumar plans to unveil a “big guarantee” for the city on May 13.
- Opposition figures such as H D Kumaraswamy cast the extension bid as fallout from a Siddaramaiah–Shivakumar power struggle, a claim the government answers with staffing constraints.
- The first civic vote since 2020 would cover 369 wards under the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act for about 89 lakh voters using paper ballots, putting control of city services and budgets in play.