{"id":937605,"date":"2026-07-02T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=518908"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:41:07","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-october-16-deadline-for-manipur-panchayat-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/supreme-court-upholds-october-16-deadline-for-manipur-panchayat-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds October 16 deadline for Manipur Panchayat elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?fit=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur Panchayat elections\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?fit=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"768\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?fit=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur Panchayat elections\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/evm.webp?fit=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Imphal: The Supreme Court dismissed a plea challenging the Manipur High Court\u2019s decision to extend the deadline for local body elections to October 16, 2026. The apex court\u2019s ruling ensures that the revised timeline stays in force, allowing the state to hold the long-awaited 6th General Panchayat Elections, reports stated. Democracy at the grassroots level [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/supreme-court-upholds-october-16-deadline-for-manipur-panchayat-elections.html\">Supreme Court upholds October 16 deadline for Manipur Panchayat elections<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/supreme-court-upholds-october-16-deadline-for-manipur-panchayat-elections.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/supreme-court-upholds-october-16-deadline-for-manipur-panchayat-elections.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: The Supreme Court dismissed a plea challenging the Manipur High Court\u2019s decision to extend the deadline for local body elections to October 16, 2026. The apex court\u2019s ruling ensures that the revised timeline stays in force, allowing the state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-937605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937605"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937620,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937605\/revisions\/937620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}