HC directs holding elections to 198 wards of BBMP
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In a severe setback to the State authorities, the High Court of Karnataka on Friday stated that the elections to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) council may have to be held just for 198 wards ignoring the federal government’s notification growing the quantity of wards to 243.
While directing the State authorities to publish ultimate notification reserving the caste-wise reservation for 198 wards based mostly on the draft notification issued in September, the Court additionally directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to declare the elections to the BBMP inside six weeks from the date of publication of ultimate reservation notification by the federal government.
The Court held that permitting utility of modification to the Karnataka Muncipal Corporations Act that elevated the quantity of wards to the BBMP can be opposite to the constitutional mandate of well timed holding of elections to the BBMP.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice S. Vishwajith Shetty delivered the decision on separate PIL petitions filed by the SEC, two former councillors M. Shivaraj and Abdul Wajid, and Ravi Jagan, a resident of Kalyan Nagar.
The SEC itself had sought a path from the courtroom to go forward with the method below means to maintain elections to 198 wards ignoring the rise within the quantity of wards to 243 as such a course of violates constitutional mandate of well timed holding of elections to native our bodies.
Earlier, it was contended on behalf of the State authorities that elections can’t be held ignoring the modification made in October 20
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