A vacation bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea which challenged the reservation notification issued by the State Election Commission for local body heads on the ground that it lead to successive/consecutive reservations of the posts of Panchayat Presidents and Municipality Chairpersons. Election process can t be interfered with in the middle , a bench comprising
The bench noted that the results of the local body elections were declared on December 16 and that the election of Panchayat Presidents is scheduled on December 30.
The counsel for the petitioner submitted that the post of President in his Panchayat has been reserved for Scheduled Caste community for two terms consecutively. Despite the fact that there was Scheduled Caste reservation for the post during the previous term 2015-2020, the same has been notified for the present term of 2020-2025 as well, the petitioner argued.