HC clears decks for polls to urban local bodies
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A Bench of Justice D.V.S.S. Somayajulu of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday cleared the decks for municipal elections by dismissing a batch of writ petitions which challenged the State Election Commission’s notification for elections to urban local bodies (ULBs).
The petitioners’ argument was that for the reason that elections couldn’t be carried out as per the unique schedule i.e. on March 23, 2020, owing to numerous causes, the complete earlier election notification had turn into infructuous by efflux of time. The recent notification for holding the elections on March 10, 2021 commenced solely from the date of withdrawal of nominations, and it was issued almost after 11 months from the deserted election programme.
In the in the meantime, a number of individuals might need turn into eligible to file nominations. When the election is commencing afresh, it ought to start with the preparation of voters’ listing, submitting of nominations, scrutiny and so on.
The impugned notification is, due to this fact, manifestly arbitrary and impermissible in legislation, the petitioners contended, however in useless because the courtroom maintained that it can’t intervene with the election course of at this stage.
It could also be famous that the SEC had issued the notification for elections to ULBs on February 15, 2021 to proceed the method from the stage of withdrawal in respect of 12 Municipal Corporations and 75 Municipalities/ Nagar Panchayats.
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