By- Safia Jabeen Parveen
On Tuesday 12 july the supreme court of India said that the suggestion of commission appointed by the Maharashtra government on grant of OBC reservation in local bodies Paul cannot be boded for the areas where the election program has already been notified.
Justice A M Khanwilkar and JB Pardiwala said it will not stop the poll process till its reaches its logical end and interfere only where it has not started.
Issue of the notification is the commencement of election. Dates can be changed or altered but election cannot be retrieved by the state election commission. We cannot prohibit if the nomination process started, the justice comments.
The adjournment was announced by the parties but was opposed by solicitor general Tushar Mehta appearing for Maharashtra.
Mehta Seth the triple test has compiled with the backward classes commission has undertaken exhausted exercise. ‘In view of the letter circulated by advocated on record for petitioner, request for adjustment has been object to by the state, we defer the hearing till next Tuesday’,the bench comment.
Before on May 4, The Apex court asked the Maharashtra state election commission do notify the program for local bodies election within 2 weeks.
The top court on March 3 said it is impossible to permit any authority to act upon the recommendation made in the interim report of the state backward classes commission which says that up to 27% reservation can be granted to the other backward classes in the local bodies in Maharashtra.
Last year in December the top coat direct the sea of Maharashtra to notify 27% of seats in the local body which were reserve for the OBCs, as general seat so that the poll process can we taken forward. On January 19, the court asked the state government to submit data on OBCs to commission to check it correctness and make recommendation under representation in election for the local bodies.
