AP HC adjourns SEC plea against staying panchayat polls to January 18
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The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday adjourned the writ plea filed by the State Election Commission (SEC) against the keep imposed by Justice M. Ganga Rao on the proposed conduct of gram panchayat (GP) elections, for listening to by an everyday Bench on January 18.
A Vacation Bench of the court docket comprising Justices U. Durga Prasad Rao and B. Krishna Mohan posted the matter as the primary one earlier than an everyday Bench to the above date whereas persevering with the suspension of the election notification.
To an objection raised by the SEC that the electoral rolls couldn’t be ready if the keep remained in drive, Advocate-General (A-G) S. Sriram submitted that electoral rolls for the aim of conducting the gram panchayat elections have been ready method again in March 2020 and a revised listing can be acquired by the Chief Electoral Officer of the State by January 15 and the identical duly forwarded to the SEC on January 22.
Responding to the SEC’s competition that the Model Code of Conduct, which got here into drive on January 9, was deemed to be suspended due to the keep order and and there’s each risk of the federal government launching sure schemes to woo the citizens, the A-G mentioned for the reason that elections are fought on non-party foundation, the query of endeavor any such measures didn’t come up, and if the federal government wished to take up contemporary improvement actions or implement new schemes, it will achieve this solely with prior permission of SEC. Hence, any apprehension in that regard was preposterous.
After listening to each the perimeters, the court docket opined that posting the matter to January 18 wouldn’t trigger any prejudice to both get together.
Justice Ganga Rao granted keep on January 11 on the SEC’s determination to conduct gram panchayat elections in 4 phases in February after listening to arguments on the home movement petition filed by the federal government, which strongly objected to the election schedule citing the specter of second wave of COVID and vaccination programme because the grounds for protecting the polls on maintain until the scenario improved.
The SEC filed the writ attraction on the identical day (January 11), whereby its standing counsel N. Ashwani Kumar argued that the election notification and the method thereof ought not to be interfered by the court docket as soon as they’d been set in movement.
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