Nainital: Regarding the lifting of the ban on the three-tier panchayat elections, the state government on Tuesday requested the High Court to mention the case and hear it today. While mentioning the petition, the government said that the gazette notification of the manual made by the government on June 9 was done on June 14.
The government said the communication gap: But due to the “communication gap”, the gazette notification could not be submitted before the High Court at the time of the hearing. Commenting on this, the court said that what is the hurry in this. More than a year has passed, elections have not been held. The court had earlier ordered elections to be held several times. Even after that, no elections were held. Now what’s the hurry?
The hearing on the panchayat election will be held on Wednesday: This notification has been presented before the High Court on behalf of the government. After the notification was presented, the division bench of Chief Justice G Narendra and Justice Alok Mehra has fixed the time for hearing all the petitions related to the panchayat elections on Wednesday, June 25 at 2 o’clock in the morning. Till then, the court has upheld the stay. The petitions of Deepika Kiraula and others in this case were also heard on Tuesday. The High Court has decided to hear all of them together.
The reservation manual has been challenged: According to the case, Ganesh Kandpal, a resident of Bageshwar, and others had challenged the rules issued by the state government on June 9 and June 11 by filing a petition in the High Court. The government had declared the reservation roster in the state so far as null in this manual. By issuing a new roster of reservation, it is considered applicable for the first time from the current election.
More than 15 petitions will be heard together: According to the petitioner, on the one hand, this rule of the government is against the previous order issued by the court. Second, according to Section 126 of the Panchayati Raj Act 2016, any rule will be considered effective only if it is published in the Official Gazette. At the same time, more than 15 petitions were heard in the single bench. Those cases have also been sent by the single bench for hearing in the division bench. Now there are various discussions about why other institutions including the secretariat were not aware of it even after the gazette notification on June 14?
