High Court upholds conduct of Gram Panchayat elections on basis of 2019 electoral rolls
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‘The conduct of elections on the basis of previously updated electoral rolls is permitted under the law’
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court led by Chief Justice Arup Kumar Goswami and comprising Justice C. Praveen Kumar on Thursday dismissed a pair of writ petitions that challenged the State Election Commission (SEC)’s resolution to conduct Gram Panchayat (GP) elections on the basis of 2019 electoral rolls.
They noticed that for the reason that elections had been already notified beneath Section 11 of AP Panchayat Raj Act, the conduct of elections on the basis of beforehand up to date electoral rolls is permitted beneath the legislation. Also, it’s in compliance with the legislation declared by the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Goswami stated he wouldn’t go into the query of who (SEC or the State authorities) is answerable for the non-updating of the electoral rolls, at this juncture.
Advocate-General S. Sriram stated the State has a story that the electoral rolls couldn’t be up to date as a consequence of non-compliance of SEC with Section 11 of the above Act, to which the courtroom answered that it has no discovering to render on the difficulty.
It could also be famous that the State Election Commissioner N. Ramesh Kumar had, whereas saying the GP election schedule earlier this month, acknowledged that the fee was pressured to undertake the 2019 electoral rolls as a result of Panchayat Raj Department’s failure to replace the previous ones. As a consequence, practically 3.60 lakh youth who attained 18 years as on January 1, 2021 could be shedding the appropriate to vote.
Aggrieved with this, Dhulipalla Akhila, a pupil from Nambur in Guntur district, and one other one filed writ petitions within the High Court praying for instructions to the SEC to droop the election notification.
Their argument was that 3.60 lakh youth wouldn’t be capable of forged their votes, which is a proper envisaged beneath Article 326 of the Constitution. But, throughout Thursday’s listening to, the courtroom refused to intervene with the election course of at this stage.
