Panchayat elections: High court ban on reservation process.

The High Court Bench has imposed an interim stay on Friday regarding the arrangement of reservation in the panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh. The court has sought answers from the state government and the Election Commission in this regard. At the same time, the next hearing of the case will be held on 15 March. At the same time, after the High Court's decision, the panchayat election reservation process has been banned.

Lucknow: The Lucknow Bench of the High Court has imposed an interim stay on Friday to finalize the system of reservation in the Panchayat elections in the state. The court has sought answers from the state government and the Election Commission in the case. The next hearing of the case will be held on 15 March. The order was passed by a bench of Justice Rituraj Awasthi and Justice Manish Mathur on the PIL of Ajay Kumar. At the same time, after the decision of the High Court, the state government has stopped the process of reservation in panchayat elections.
February 11 order challenged
The petition's order of 11 February has been challenged in the petition. On behalf of the petitioner, it has been said that the year 1995 is being considered as the original year for the rotation system of reservation in panchayat elections. Reservation is being rotated on the basis of the same. While the state government issued the mandate on 16 September 2015, the original year was 2015. Reservation was also implemented in the previous elections on the same basis. Government considering 1995 as the original year
The order said that the state government had to take the process of rotating the reservation by considering 2015 as the original year, but the government is arbitrarily completing the reservation process by considering 1995 as the original year and declaring the reservation list on 17 March 2021 It is not appropriate to consider 1995 as the original year.
It has been further stated in the petition that in the mandate dated 16 September 2015, it was said that according to the census of 2001 and 2011, a large amount of demographic changes have taken place, so it will not be appropriate to apply the reservation considering the year 1995 as the original year. The judiciary said that by ignoring the mandate of 16 September 2015, the mandate of 11 February 2021 was implemented, in which the year 1995 has been considered as the original year. It was also said that the Panchayat elections of the year 2015 were also conducted according to the mandate of 16 September 2015. After the decision of the HC, the government stopped the reservation process.
Following the order of the Allahabad High Court to put a stay on the reservation process regarding the Panchayat elections, the Panchayati Raj Department has currently issued an order to completely stop the reservation process and the allocation process. Additional Chief Secretary of Panchayati Raj Department, Manoj Kumar Singh, has sent a letter to all the District Magistrates in view of the decision of the High Court, in order to stop the process of allocation of reservation related to Panchayat elections and issued instructions not to finalize. After the High Court's decision, the state government will also file its reply in the court on 15 March.