chennai the dmk on thursday moved the supreme court with a fresh petition seeking completion of delimitation and reservation of wards in newly formed districts before the notification for the local body polls is issued the petition is yet to be numberedit comes in the wake of the court ordering the state election commission to notify the civic body polls before december 13 the dmks argument is that since four districts were bifurcated and trifurcated to create five new districts recently delimitation exercise and reservation of wards should be completed in the newly formed districts before the polls are notifiedmeanwhile the political slugfest continued with the dmk and the aiadmk accusing each other of trying to sabotage the local body polls both parties on thursday put on a brave front by calling for early conduct of the pollsthe aiadmk made an appeal to the state election commission on thursday to be guarded against political parties obtaining interim injunction from court against holding the polls the ruling partys plea has come within days of rpi leader c k tamilarasan an erstwhile aiadmk ally moving the high court seeking to restrain the commission from declaring polls without reserving the posts such as deputy mayors and vicechairmen of urban and rural local bodies which would be filled up through indirect elections for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes a division bench which heard the case had directed the state central governments and the commission to file reply by january 7 we expressed our desire to hold the polls the commission should maintain vigil and see that the parties dont obtain stay order on the conduct of polls aiadmk leader and deputy speaker pollachi v jayaraman saidat an allparty meeting convened by the commission the dmk alleged that the delimitation and reservation of wards were a farce it was not done properly no notice was issued to our party by the delimitation authorities before finalizing the process tamil nadu local bodies delimitation regulation 2017 mandates seeking objections and suggestions from political parties the mandatory procedures were not complied with by the commission dmk legal wing secretary r girirajan said he demanded that the government set right the anomalies in a week congress a key dmk ally too made similar complaintswhile demanding single phase polls to check irregularities the opposition parties took serious view of the commission not taking into consideration formation of new districts voters of the newly carved out districts will cast their votes to elect representatives for the erstwhile districts they saidthe delimitation of the territorial wards of village panchayats panchayat union and district panchayats have already been notified and thereby the delimitation exercise for the local body polls has been completed by the government only after the polls will the process of modification be taken up the commission explained which did not go down well with the opposition the cpm demanded direct polls for mayors and chairpersons of urban local bodiessources in the commission said it is likely to notify