A.P. High Court gives nod for Gram Panchayat elections
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A Division Bench of the Andhr Pradesh High Court led by Chief Justice Arup Kumar Goswami and consisting of Justice C. Praveen Kumar directed the federal government to conduct elections for Gram Panchayats (GPs) as per the schedule introduced by State Election Commission (SEC) however in a way with out disturbing COVID-19 vaccination, which started on January 16.
With this, the interim keep order handed by Justice M. Ganga Rao on January 11 has been put aside.
The inexperienced sign given by the courtroom for GP elections got here as a shot within the arm for Commissioner N. Ramesh Kumar who argued, in his writ enchantment, that the federal government was looking for postponement of elections on one pretext or the opposite and that the one decide erred in suspending the election notification dated January 8 because it was in opposition to the settled precept of legislation that the courtroom can’t intrude with the election notifications and the method thereof as soon as the train begins.
The SEC issued the impugned notification for conducting GP elections in 4 phases i.e. on February 5, 9, 13 and 17.
In its writ petition, the federal government maintained that the state of affairs will not be conducive for elections citing a attainable resurgence of COVID-19 and the vaccination drive undertaken by it.
The authorities knowledgeable the courtroom that consultations had been held on COVID-19 containment measures as a mere formality and it’s issues had been brushed apart by the SEC.
It was alleged that the SEC didn’t apply it’s thoughts to the enormity of the bottom state of affairs arising from vaccination and the involvement of many authorities departments and the deployment of males and assets and its significance for public well being.
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