Mar 12, 2021, 22:22 PM IST
Lucknow: The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court has ordered to put a stop to the reservation and allocation process in the UP Panchayat Election.
In this regard, orders have been sent to all the District Magistrate s, the court also reprimanded the Uttar Pradesh government over the reservation process. Uttar Pradesh government will file its reply on Monday during the next hearing.
The Bench of Justices Ritu Raj Awasthi and Manish Mathur passed the order on the PIL moved by Ajai Kumar. The court directed the government and commission to furnish their response on the issue and fixed March 15 as the next date of hearing.
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Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election 2021: Reservation list for panchayat polls to be released today
In view of the upcoming panchayat elections in the Uttar Pradesh, the state administration will release the reservation list of seats. The list will be released by district magistrates. The list will pave the way for candidates to know from where they are eligible to contest polls.Â
According to media reports, the final list is cleared after all objections and will be published on Tuesday. The government had earlier set March 15 as the deadline for the list.Â
The three-tier panchayat polls are scheduled for April. The polls will choose a total of 57,207 heads.
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JP Nadda on Two-day Visit to UP to Formulate Strategy for Panchayat Elections, Oversee Preparations for State Polls
File photo of BJP national president JP Nadda speaking at a meeting.
He will reach Lucknow Airport at 1.30 pm today where CM Yogi Adityanath, State President Swatantra Dev Singh and party workers will attend him. Nadda will hold meetings with state BJP officials and regional presidents at 2pm.
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BJP President JP Nadda will be on a two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh starting from Thursday where the BJP chief will be meeting the members of UP cabinet in Lucknow.
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LUCKNOW: Already delayed, the three-tier rural local body polls are likely to take place in Uttar Pradesh between March 15 and 30. However, the official announcement of dates is likely to come around February 15.
According to Panchayati Raj Minister Bhupendra Chaudhary, the work of delimitation of wards is under process while reorganization of gram sabhas has been completed. The four districts of Moradabad, Gonda, Sambhal and Gautam Budh Nagar are under full delimitation and the work for districts under partial delimitation is going on.
The tenure of 60,000 gram panchayats of the state had ended on December 25. The delay in conducting the polls in time has come amid the pandemic as the revision of the voters’ list and other modalities which are being conducted now could not be held as per the schedule.
The BJP will chalk out its strategy for the coming panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh during a meeting on Sunday which will be attended by national vice president and in-charge of the state affairs in the party, Radha Mohan Singh. Various important issues will be taken up in the meeting including the coming panchayat elections, vice president of the state unit and member of Legislative Council Vijay Bahadur Pathak said on Friday. Besides, the meeting will also discuss a work plan for taking the achievements of the Yogi Adityanath government, which is completing four years in office on March 19, among the people , Pathak said.