After Madhya Pradesh Governor Mangubhai Patel signed off on the withdrawal of the ordinance directing to conduct elections on Sunday, Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission cancelled panchayat elections scheduled from 6 January to 16 February.
“With the cancellation of the election, the model code of conduct, which was imposed on 4 December, will also be scrapped. The commission will be returning the deposit amount of representatives of the first phase of the election,” BS Jamod, the secretary of the state election commission wrote in a letter to all district collectors in Hindi.