Govt decision on holding gram sabha on R-Day soon
The Tamil Nadu government while seeking more time to file counters on a plea moved by the DMK and MNM challenging the failure to allow gram sabha meeting on October 2 as mandated by law, informed Madras High Court on Friday that a decision on allowing the same on January 26 will be taken shortly.
By : migrator
Update: 2021-01-23 02:02 GMT
Chennai
On recording the same, the first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy granted two more weeks for the Tamil Nadu government to file counter to writ petitions filed by DMK principal secretary KN Nehru and MNM leader AG Mourya for not conducting grama sabha meetings.
Nehru’s counsel NR Elango submitted that the meetings were prohibited with an oblique motive of stifling dissent as the gram sabhas had decided to pass resolutions against the contentious farm acts, the draft of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) notification and other issues.
He contended this “interference in the affairs of the village panchayats” to be prima facie illegal and against the principles of democracy, local self-governance and self-determination. When the issue was raised after the cancellation of the October 2 gram sabha, the government had cited COVID-19 restrictions as the reason.
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