Through PTI
MUMBAI: NCP chief Dhananjay Munde has demanded that elections to the native municipal our bodies in Maharashtra, scheduled subsequent month, must now not be held with out offering reservation to the OBCs, and claimed that the state Backward Categories Fee’s document on quota for the neighborhood is able.
Elections to 92 Nagar Parishads and 4 Nagar Panchayats in Maharashtra shall be hung on August 18, the State Election Fee (SEC) introduced on Friday.
Elections shall be held for native city our bodies in Pune, Sangli, Solapur, Kolhapur, Nashik, Dhule, Nandurbar, Jalgaon, Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Osmanabad, Latur, Amravati and Buldhana districts.
In a tweet posted on Friday evening, Munde, former minister for social justice, stated, “The Backward Categories Fee arrange via the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities on OBC quota has ready its document.
It’s our company stand that with out saying the OBC reservation, elections to the civic our bodies must now not be held within the state.
” Subsequent month’s elections to the municipal our bodies usually are held with out Different Backward Categories (OBC) reservation whilst a similar case is pending prior to the Superb Courtroom, assets within the SEC have stated.
The BJP had previous adversarial the keeping of native physique elections till the OBC quota, put aside via the Superb Courtroom in March closing 12 months, was once restored.
However the celebration is now in energy within the state in conjunction with the Shiv Sena faction led via Leader Minister Eknath Shinde, whose rebel in opposition to the Sena management caused the cave in of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA authorities closing month.
Previous, state Congress leader Nana Patole additionally alleged that former leader minister Fadnavis and the Union government-led via High Minister Narendra Modi had been chargeable for OBCs shedding political quota in native physique elections.
“There must be no elections till the reservation is restored,” he demanded.
The SC had refused to revive OBC reservation for need of empirical information.
A 3-judge bench of the apex court docket had previous stated the reservation in favour of the OBCs within the native our bodies in Maharashtra can not exceed 50 according to cent of the entire seats reserved for the SCs, STs, and OBCs taken in combination.
It had referred to the 3 stipulations famous within the charter bench verdict of 2010.
The stipulations integrated specifying the percentage of reservation required to be provisioned native body-wise in mild of the suggestions of the fee in order to not fall foul of overbreadth and in the end, such reservation shall now not exceed an combination of fifty according to cent of the entire seats reserved in favour of the SCs, STs, and OBCs taken in combination.
