Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Sunday asserted that the State Election Commission has notified rural civic polls afresh only as per the Supreme Court order and rubbished DMK's allegation of non compliance of court directives.
A day after DMK chief M K Stalin said there was no ther option but to approach the court again seeking full compliance of its December 6 order, Palaniswami said the top court had ruled that polls to rural civic bodies can be held in 27 districts of Tamil Nadu.
"Only based on the Supreme Court's directive, the State Election Commission has now notified the polls to rural civic bodies," he told reporters here.
As regards local polls in nine other districts, the court verdict said it should be conducted after completion of processes including delimitation in four months, he said.
"Since the DMK approached the court over civic polls, elections could not be held for about three years since 2016."