Panchamasali Lingayat Community Reservation Issue
Panchamasali Lingayat community reservation Issue. The decision on Panchamasali Lingayat community reservation will be taken in due time: Yeddyurappa.
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa said that the state government would try to get a report from the committee headed by the Backward Classes Commission and the retired judge of the High Court and take appropriate decisions on the demands for a reservation that have arisen in the last six-seven months.
The Chief Minister was answering the question of BJP MLA Basangowda Patil Yatnal in the Assembly.
Yatanal had asked the Chief Minister to give a statement on the demand for reservation in Category 2A of the OBC by the Panchamasali Lingayat community as soon as the proceedings of the House began.
Assembly Speaker Visheshwar Hegde Kageri tried to convince Yatanal that he would give an opportunity to raise the issue after the Question Hour, but Chief Minister Yeddyurappa intervened and said that he would give an immediate statement on the community’s dharna.
Supreme Court dismisses Joseph’s petition in Kerala’s election symbol dispute.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed on behalf of senior Kerala Congress leader PJ Joseph. The order of the Election Commission was challenged in the petition.
The Jos. K. Mani faction was officially accorded Kerala Congress-M status and was allotted the party’s election symbol by Commission.
Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justice AS. A bench of Bopanna and Justice V. Ramasubramanian dismissed Joseph’s petition challenging the Kerala High Court’s decision.
The High Court in its order upheld the order of the Election Commission. The commission had officially approved the allotment of the two-leaf election symbol.
Senior advocate Shyam Dewan appearing for Joseph said that there is no evidence available with the Election Commission to consider the Mani faction as the real Kerala Congress-M party.
However, the bench said that it does not want to interfere with the High Court’s decision. Let us know that recently the Election Commission had announced the dates for the assembly elections in the state.
Elections are to be held in 140 assembly seats in Kerala. The outgoing assembly has eight female legislators and the remaining 132 male legislators.
The term of the Government of Kerala is to end on June 1, 2021. Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arora said that there were 21,498 election centers in Kerala, now the number of election centers will be 40,771.
Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arora informed that elections will be held in Kerala on 6 April. There will be simultaneous elections to 140 seats in the state. The counting of votes will take place on 2 May.