The Tamil Nadu State Election Commission today told the Madras High Court that it could notify the election schedule for the local body polls only three months after the government accepts the delimitation proposal. The delimitation proposal itself is likely to be submitted by August 31, said the poll panel counsel A L Somayaji, countering a DMK plea for initiation of contempt proceedings against the State Election Commissioner and the SEC secretary.

The DMK has moved the court seeking contempt actions against the poll panel officials, allegedly for violating last year's court order to notify the local body elections schedule by September 18 and complete it by November 17 of 2017. The poll panel counsel made the submission to a bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M Sundar, hearing the DMK plea.