By PTI
MUMBAI: NCP chief Dhananjay Munde has demanded that elections to the native municipal our bodies in Maharashtra, scheduled subsequent month, shouldn’t be held with out offering reservation to the OBCs, and claimed that the state Backward Classes Commission’s report on quota for the neighborhood is prepared.
Elections to 92 Nagar Parishads and 4 Nagar Panchayats in Maharashtra might be held on August 18, the State Election Commission (SEC) introduced on Friday.
Elections might 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 night time, Munde, former minister for social justice, mentioned, “The Backward Classes Commission arrange by the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities on OBC quota has ready its report.
It is our agency stand that with out asserting the OBC reservation, elections to the civic our bodies shouldn’t be held within the state.
” Next month’s elections to the municipal our bodies are prone to be held with out Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation whereas a associated case is pending earlier than the Supreme Court, sources within the SEC have mentioned.
The BJP had earlier opposed the holding of native physique elections till the OBC quota, put aside by the Supreme Court in March final yr, was restored.
But the celebration is now in energy within the state together with the Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, whose rise up in opposition to the Sena management triggered the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA authorities final month.
Earlier, state Congress chief Nana Patole additionally alleged that former chief minister Fadnavis and the Union government-led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been answerable for OBCs shedding political quota in native physique elections.
“There should be no elections until the reservation is restored,” he demanded.
The SC had refused to revive OBC reservation for need of empirical knowledge.
A 3-judge bench of the apex court docket had earlier mentioned the reservation in favour of the OBCs within the native our bodies in Maharashtra can not exceed 50 per cent of the overall seats reserved for the SCs, STs, and OBCs taken collectively.
It had referred to the three situations famous within the structure bench verdict of 2010.
The situations included specifying the proportion 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 any case, such reservation shall not exceed an mixture of fifty per cent of the overall seats reserved in favour of the SCs, STs, and OBCs taken collectively.
