Allahabad HC asks Centre, UP govt, CEC to file responses on banning caste-based rallies
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LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has directed the Centre and the state authorities together with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to file a counter affidavit inside 4 weeks on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) looking for a whole ban on caste-based rallies in Uttar Pradesh.
The division bench, comprising Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi, granted two weeks’ time to the petitioner for submitting a rejoinder affidavit to the counter affidavit to be filed by the respondents. It has directed the court docket registry to record the case after six weeks for the subsequent listening to.
A bench handed the order on an outdated Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by one Motilal Yadav in 2013 after reopening it.
Hearing the PIL on July 11, 2013, the bench had issued an interim ban on organizing caste-based rallies in Uttar Pradesh. The bench had additionally issued notices to the principle political events to submit their response within the matter.
The bench, on Dec. 5, 2002, issued notices to the 4 main political events — BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP and Congress — looking for their response as to why a whole ban shouldn’t be imposed on caste-based
rallies within the state eternally.
The bench had additionally requested the chief election commissioner as to why the ballot physique shouldn’t take motion towards these holding such rallies.
In its order handed in 2013, the High Court bench had noticed, “The unrestricted freedom to hold caste-based rallies, which is to the total disliking and beyond the comprehension of the modern generation and also being contrary to the public interest, cannot be justified. It will rather be an act of negating the rule of law and denying the fundamental rights to citizens.”
The bench had additionally noticed that the political events, of their quest to hunt a political base within the caste system, had “seriously disturbed” the social cloth and cohesiveness. “It has rather resulted in causing social fission.”
The petitioner had submitted that caste minorities within the nation have been diminished to “second-class citizens” in their very own nation owing to such ‘anti-democratic’ actions of political events designed to woo the votes of majority teams.
“Despite the clear constitutional provisions and the basic rights enshrined therein, they’re feeling disillusioned, dismayed and betrayed due to being positioned in a disadvantageous place within the
quantity recreation of vote politics”, the petitioner had added.
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has directed the Centre and the state authorities together with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to file a counter affidavit inside 4 weeks on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) looking for a whole ban on caste-based rallies in Uttar Pradesh.
The division bench, comprising Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi, granted two weeks’ time to the petitioner for submitting a rejoinder affidavit to the counter affidavit to be filed by the respondents. It has directed the court docket registry to record the case after six weeks for the subsequent listening to.
A bench handed the order on an outdated Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by one Motilal Yadav in 2013 after reopening it.
Hearing the PIL on July 11, 2013, the bench had issued an interim ban on organizing caste-based rallies in Uttar Pradesh. The bench had additionally issued notices to the principle political events to submit their response within the matter.
The bench, on Dec. 5, 2002, issued notices to the 4 main political events — BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP and Congress — looking for their response as to why a whole ban shouldn’t be imposed on caste-based
rallies within the state eternally.
The bench had additionally requested the chief election commissioner as to why the ballot physique shouldn’t take motion towards these holding such rallies.
In its order handed in 2013, the High Court bench had noticed, “The unrestricted freedom to hold caste-based rallies, which is to the total disliking and beyond the comprehension of the modern generation and also being contrary to the public interest, cannot be justified. It will rather be an act of negating the rule of law and denying the fundamental rights to citizens.”
The bench had additionally noticed that the political events, of their quest to hunt a political base within the caste system, had “seriously disturbed” the social cloth and cohesiveness. “It has rather resulted in causing social fission.”
The petitioner had submitted that caste minorities within the nation have been diminished to “second-class citizens” in their very own nation owing to such ‘anti-democratic’ actions of political events designed to woo the votes of majority teams.
“Despite the clear constitutional provisions and the basic rights enshrined therein, they’re feeling disillusioned, dismayed and betrayed due to being positioned in a disadvantageous place within the
quantity recreation of vote politics”, the petitioner had added.
