Nainital: Regarding the lifting of the ban on the three-tier panchayat elections, the state government on Tuesday requested the High Court to mention the case today itself and hold a hearing. While mentioning the petition, the government said that the gazette notification of the rules made by the government on June 9 was done on June 14.
The government said communication gap: But due to the “communication gap”, the gazette notification could not be presented before the High Court at the time of hearing. On this, the court commented that what is the hurry in this. More than a year has passed, elections have not been held. The court had ordered to hold elections several times before this. Even after that elections were not held. Now what is the hurry in this.
Hearing on panchayat elections will be held on Wednesday: Today this notification has been presented before the High Court by the government. After the notification was presented, the division bench of Chief Justice G Narendra and Justice Alok Mehra has fixed the time of 2 pm on Wednesday, June 25 for hearing all the petitions related to Panchayat elections. Till then the court has maintained the stay. In this case, the petitions of Deepika Kiraula and others were also heard on Tuesday. The High Court has decided to hear all of them together.
Reservation rules have been challenged: According to the case, Ganesh Kandpal, a resident of Bageshwar and others had challenged the rules issued by the state government on June 9 and June 11 by filing a petition in the High Court. In this rule, the government had declared the reservation roster in the state till now as void. By issuing a new roster of reservation, it was considered applicable for the first time from the current election.
More than 15 petitions will be heard together: According to the petitioner, on one hand, this rule of the government is against the earlier order of the court. Secondly, according to Section 126 of the Panchayati Raj Act 2016, any rule will be considered effective only when it is published in the government gazette. At the same time, more than 15 petitions were heard in the single bench. The single bench has also sent those cases for hearing in the division bench. Now there are various discussions about why other institutions including the Secretariat were not aware of it even after the gazette notification on June 14?
