The Madras High Court on Tuesday Oct 04,2016 stayed the local body polls in Tamil
Nadu citing a few irregularities in the notification was issued for the
elections.
The single-member bench was hearing a petition by the opposition DMK. The DMK had approached the Madras High Court alleging that adequate reservation has not been provided to the ST community as mandated by the Constitution for the local body elections and that the election process was announced in a hurried manner without giving opportunities to the other political parties to decide their course of action.
Incidentally, Tuesday was the last day to withdraw the nominations
The single-member bench was hearing a petition by the opposition DMK. The DMK had approached the Madras High Court alleging that adequate reservation has not been provided to the ST community as mandated by the Constitution for the local body elections and that the election process was announced in a hurried manner without giving opportunities to the other political parties to decide their course of action.
Passing the orders on the petition on
Tuesday, Justice Kirubakaran observed that the reservations were not
properly followed. The court struck down the notification issued for the
elections.
Now, the state election commission has to issue a fresh
notification for the local body elections. As per the earlier
notification of the SEC, the polls were to take place on October 17 and
19.
The court had also directed the State Election Commission to conduct
the polls by the end of December.
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