KOLKATA: Uncertainty looms over Bengal panchayat polls scheduled on May 14. A single bench of the Calcutta top court docket Justice Subrata Talukdar has referred the topic to a department bench that also is hearing any other case on the same issue. The hearing is due on Friday, May four.
The single bench was once hearing the topic on Tuesday. At the tip of the hearing, Justice Talukdar mentioned May 14 is usually a tentative date no longer the general one.
The department bench of the top court docket which may be hearing a case on the issue of offering good enough safety right through the agricultural council elections will decide on the poll date, he mentioned.
The State Election Commission (SEC), on the recommendations of the Bengal government, has notified panchayat elections on May 14.
“The HC single bench of Justice Subrata Talukdar as of late mentioned the HC department bench will decide on the poll date on May four,” BJP state president Dilip Ghosh mentioned.
In his previous order, Justice Talukdar has already ordered on offering good enough safety to the 58000-odd booths within the panchayat. With as of late’s order, the problem of Bengal rural council elections gave the look to be getting increasingly advanced. The Opposition has alleged that the (SEC) has arbitrarily notified a single-phased poll on May 14, without consulting them and without ensuring good enough safety for the 58,000 panchayat booths. The total choice of team of workers with the state police may be 58,000.
Last Thursday, the SEC issued notification for a single-phase panchayat polls within the state on May 14, reckoning on May 17 and re-polling on May 16. The notification was once issued after the Bengal government sent its proposal on the dates.
Earlier, dates issued by way of the SEC was once postponed by way of the Calcutta top court docket. The transfer of top court docket got here after the Opposition parties led by way of BJP, Congress and the Left had approached the court docket for the extension of the closing date of filing nomination.
The opposition parties claimed their nominees failed to reach the place of job of SDO and BDO to record papers because of violence by way of goons of ruling Trinamool Congress.
As in step with an previous circular of WBSEC, the panchayat election within the state was once scheduled to take place in three levels on May 1, three and five and the counting of votes was once scheduled on May eight. After the course of the top court docket to announce new dates, the Commission on April 21, 2018, notified April 23 because the closing date for filing nominations. The closing date for scrutiny is April 25 and the closing date for withdrawal of candidature is April 28, 2018. The SEC has, on the other hand, no longer introduced the polling date.
The SEC will now have to persuade the HC department bench on May four about good enough safety arrangements for the elections to be held on May 14.
BJP’s Pratap Banerjee welcomed as of late's court docket order announcing "The court docket has mentioned that the SEC has no longer finished its homework prior to saying the May 14 election date.”
The single bench was once hearing the topic on Tuesday. At the tip of the hearing, Justice Talukdar mentioned May 14 is usually a tentative date no longer the general one.
The department bench of the top court docket which may be hearing a case on the issue of offering good enough safety right through the agricultural council elections will decide on the poll date, he mentioned.
The State Election Commission (SEC), on the recommendations of the Bengal government, has notified panchayat elections on May 14.
“The HC single bench of Justice Subrata Talukdar as of late mentioned the HC department bench will decide on the poll date on May four,” BJP state president Dilip Ghosh mentioned.
In his previous order, Justice Talukdar has already ordered on offering good enough safety to the 58000-odd booths within the panchayat. With as of late’s order, the problem of Bengal rural council elections gave the look to be getting increasingly advanced. The Opposition has alleged that the (SEC) has arbitrarily notified a single-phased poll on May 14, without consulting them and without ensuring good enough safety for the 58,000 panchayat booths. The total choice of team of workers with the state police may be 58,000.
Last Thursday, the SEC issued notification for a single-phase panchayat polls within the state on May 14, reckoning on May 17 and re-polling on May 16. The notification was once issued after the Bengal government sent its proposal on the dates.
Earlier, dates issued by way of the SEC was once postponed by way of the Calcutta top court docket. The transfer of top court docket got here after the Opposition parties led by way of BJP, Congress and the Left had approached the court docket for the extension of the closing date of filing nomination.
The opposition parties claimed their nominees failed to reach the place of job of SDO and BDO to record papers because of violence by way of goons of ruling Trinamool Congress.
As in step with an previous circular of WBSEC, the panchayat election within the state was once scheduled to take place in three levels on May 1, three and five and the counting of votes was once scheduled on May eight. After the course of the top court docket to announce new dates, the Commission on April 21, 2018, notified April 23 because the closing date for filing nominations. The closing date for scrutiny is April 25 and the closing date for withdrawal of candidature is April 28, 2018. The SEC has, on the other hand, no longer introduced the polling date.
The SEC will now have to persuade the HC department bench on May four about good enough safety arrangements for the elections to be held on May 14.
BJP’s Pratap Banerjee welcomed as of late's court docket order announcing "The court docket has mentioned that the SEC has no longer finished its homework prior to saying the May 14 election date.”
Bengal panchayat polls: 'May 14 date not final'
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