New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) moves Supreme Court seeking directions to the State Election Commission to conduct Municipal Elections in Delhi.

AAP has accused the poll panel for not conducting elections at the behest of the Centre. After its repeated requests to the State Election Commission to conduct MCD  polls went vain.

AAP filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Election Commission to conduct MCD polls in a free, fair and expeditious manner, without any interference from the Central government.

The plea was filed after the Delhi State Election Commission indefinitely deferred the MCD elections citing a communication from the Lt. Governor conveying that the Centre was intending to pass legislation to merge the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi.

A week back the Aam Aadmi Party alleged that the BJP government at the Centre is “blackmailing” the State Election Commissioner into keeping on hold the announcement of schedules for civic polls in the national capital for an “indefinite period”.

The centre has blackmailing Delhi State Election Commissioner S.K. Srivastava, kept his file of corruption and directed him to take the instructions from the Centre. BJP is set to suffer a “miserable defeat” in the civic polls if conducted, the AAP said.

“We have learnt from reliable sources that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has kept a file ready on State Election Commissioner (SEC) S K Srivastava's corruption. He was called, threatened, intimidated, blackmailed and told that he will be put behind the bars if polls were conducted,” AAP leader Durgesh Pathak told a press conference at party headquarters here. The New Indian Express reported.

Senior AAP leader Atishi appealed to the SEC to conduct the municipal polls, saying postponement of the announcement of its schedules has raised a question mark on the “functioning and integrity” of the poll panel.

“If you buckle under the pressure of the PMO, Union government's intimation and threatening, and defer the elections, you will be starting the end of democracy in this country. Your name will be written in black letters in the history of this country,” she said.