Overview

• The Cabinet will convene on August 25 at the Secretariat to decide the local-body poll schedule and the reservation framework.
• A bill to raise Backward Classes reservations to 42% and an ordinance to lift the 50% overall cap are pending with President Droupadi Murmu.
• With approvals still awaited, officials indicate voting could use the 2019 formula that set the BC quota at 23% to align with the Supreme Court limit.
• The government is expected to tell the State Election Commission it is ready to conduct the elections in September to meet the High Court directive.
• Congress leaders will discuss awarding roughly 42% of tickets to BC candidates, and the Cabinet will consider tabling the Justice P.C. Ghose report on Kaleshwaram in the Assembly.