A division bench of Justice Valmiki Menezes and Justice Hiten Venegavkar made the observation while upholding the validity of the Goa Municipalities (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026.
While the Court upheld the ordinance, it emphasised that fresh statutory exercises cannot be used as a ground to prolong the municipal polls.
“No government has a constitutional entitlement to choose a politically convenient date for an election whose periodicity is fixed by the Constitution. No Legislature can proceed on the assumption that enactment of a new electoral requirement automatically supplies additional constitutional time for its implementation,” the bench observed.