Karnataka HC notice to govt. on appointment of advisers to CM
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A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum handed the order on the petition filed by Samaj Parivarthana Samudaya, a Dharwad-based NGO.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday ordered challenge of notice to the State authorities on a PIL petition questioning the legality of appointing eight people as advisers/political secretaries to the Chief Minister.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum handed the order on the petition filed by Samaj Parivarthana Samudaya, a Dharwad-based NGO.
The petitioner questioned the appointments of Mahadev Prakash, Mohan A. Limbekai, Sunil G.S., Shankargouda I. Patila, M.P. Renukacharya, Beluru Sudarshan, M.B. Maramkal, and Lakshminarayana as both advisers to the CM or political secretaries. A pair of them resigned from the posts not too long ago.
It was alleged within the petition that the ruling social gathering, which couldn’t accommodate its followers who helped kind the federal government as Ministers in view of Constitutional restrict on quantity of Ministers in a State, had devised this ingenious methodology of appointing such individuals as advisers/political secretaries by offering them with the standing of Cabinet Minister or Minister of State rank.
Pointing on the market there was no authorized provision below which advisers/political secretaries to the CM might be created and supplied a standing of a Minister, the petitioner contended that appointment orders issued to these individuals neither prescribe their duties nor the obligations, and the appointments had brought on a dent to the exchequer.
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