The election to rural local bodies in 28 districts in the state whose tenure ends in January 2025 is likely to get delayed.
The state government has informed the Madras High Court that the polls would be held only after completing the process of delimitation and reservation.
On December 27 and 30 of 2019, approximately 77% of a total of about 3.31 crore voters — around 2.55 crore participated in election of local bodies.
They have elected representatives for 515 district panchayat (DP) wards, 5,090 panchayat union (PU) wards, and 76,746 village panchayat (VP) wards, spread over 27 districts.
In addition, the poll was conducted to elect 9,264 VP presidents.
The remaining nine districts went to elections in October 2021.