Hold BTC polls by Nov 20:HC tells govt

Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court has asked the  state election authorities to hold the BTC polls by November 20.

Hearing a PIL, a bench of the court has issued instruction to the authorities to hold it by November 20.

Notably,  then polls were scheduled for April 4 following the end of the term of Hagrama Mohilary and his fellows. But it was suspended following the COVID19 endemic.

Despite repeated appeals,  the authorities did not take any decision forcing BPF to move the court.