Vijayawada: State Election Commissioner Anil Chandra Punetha said that the State government will issue a gazette notification finalising the reservations for the Andhra Pradesh local body elections, after which the election notification and schedule will follow.
Speaking informally with the media on Friday, Punetha said the electoral roll to be used will depend on the status of the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) exercise. If the SIR process in the state is completed by the time the notification is issued, the elections will be held using the new voter list. If it is not, the existing voter list will be used.
He added that once the reservations are finalised, a meeting will be held with political parties, and only after that will the election notification be released.
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by the Andhra Pradesh government challenging a high court order striking down two government orders providing 34 per cent reservation for backward classes in local body elections.A bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu said the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s judgement rightly found lack of the empirical data required to justify reservation beyond the 50 per cent ceiling.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the state government, submitted that the decision was backed by demographic and empirical material and there is no reason why the high court rejected the data as unreliable
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