The Maharashtra State Election Commission has stayed the elections to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) seats in the local self-governments, following the Supreme Court’s decision of staying the state government’s ordinance to ensure 27 per cent political quota for the OBCs.

“Without setting up a commission to collect data local government wise, it is not open to the State Election Commission to provide for reservation of OBC category. That is the first step which ought to have been done,” the SC said on Monday. In March, the SC had scrapped the 27 per cent political quota for the OBCs, citing the breach of 50 per cent cap on reservation.