: MP panchayat polls: Centre seeks recall of order to notify OBC seats under general category #IndiaNEWS The Centre has moved the Supreme Court seeking a recall of one of its orders that put a stay on

MP panchayat polls: Centre seeks recall of order to notify OBC seats under general category #IndiaNEWS
The Centre has moved the Supreme Court seeking a recall of one of its orders that put a stay on the election process on seats that are reserved for members of the Other Backward Class community in Madhya Pradesh’s local bodies, PTI reported on Monday.In its order on December 17, the Supreme Court had also asked the state Election Commission to re-notify the seats reserved for the members of the general category. The court was hearing a petition against an ordinance passed by the Madhya Pradesh government about reservation and delimitation of constituencies in the state, according to The Indian Express.The Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj and Gram Swaraj (Amendment) Ordinance, promulgated in November, had annulled the delimitation and rotation of states carried out in 2019 by the then Congress-led Kamal Nath government. The ordinance also had provisions to carry out local body poll processes, including reservation of seats according to the delimitation and rotation carried out by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in 2014.Reserved seats are rotated among Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women every five years.In relation to a plea challenging this ordinance, the Supreme Court stayed the local body polls on December 15. The court also observed that it had passed a similar verdict in a case...Read more

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