SC asks SEC to fix date of ZP bypoll in Maharashtra Mumbai News – Times of India

Mumbai: Supreme Court (scheduled caste) instructed on Tuesday state election commission (seconds) to hold by-elections to various Zilla Parishads in the five districts or postpone them after considering the notifications of the Disaster Management Authority and take a decision if the prevailing pandemic situation becomes “favourable”.
was hearing a petition filed by the SC Bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjiv Khanna Maharashtra The government asked to postpone the bypolls for six months, citing the new version of Kovid-19 and a possible third wave of the pandemic in the state.
The Supreme Court sought a compliance affidavit from the SEC that had announced bypolls to five districts—Dhule, Nandurbar, Akola, Washim and Nagpur—and 33 panchayat samitis as they were at level 1. However, he did not announce the election. The program in Palghar district was in the third level on June 22.
But, from June 25, the Disaster Management Authority has completed State In Level 3, Senior Advocate PS Patwalia and Standing Counsel Rahul Chitnis said.
The state has also currently banned the gathering of more than 100 persons across the state.
The SC had in March this year read out a provision of the Maharashtra ZP and Panchayat Samiti Act 1961, which means that reservation in favor of OBCs in the respective local bodies can be notified to the extent that it does not exceed 50 per cent of the total. Ho. The total number of seats reserved in favor of SC/ST/OBC taken together.
SC had canceled some of the notifications issued by SEC in 2018 and 2020.
The SEC declared by-elections to six district panchayats and 27 panchayat samitis on March 5, 2021, vacating those seats that exceeded 50 per cent reservation, and announced elections for such vacant seats separately.

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