Pune: A Pune-based lawyer has moved a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court urging that the forthcoming Maharashtra State Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) elections be postponed as around 40 per cent of the voters in the state have been affected by flood and drought.

Social activist Vivek Sharavan Chavan alias Bhai Vivek Chavan, 49, a resident of Lohegoan, moved the petition through his lawyer Tosif Chand Shaikh on Friday against the State of Maharashtra, Election Commission of India and the Maharashtra State Election Commission.