Andhra Pradesh High Court’s ruling seen as embarrassment to Chief Minister Jagan Reddy’s authorities
Hyderabad:
The Andhra Pradesh High Court immediately ordered the reinstatement of Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar as State Election Commissioner. The High Court’s order, which units apart the appointment of retired Justice V Kanagaraju from Tamil Nadu, has been considered as an embarrassing improvement for the Jagan Mohan Reddy authorities.
Chief Minister Jagan Reddy’s YSR Congress had additionally handed an ordinance amending the Panchayat Raj Act to cut back the State Election Commissioner’s (SEC) tenure from 5 to a few years. That has additionally been put aside.
The YSR Congress authorities had eliminated Nimagadda Ramesh below controversial circumstances after he postponed native physique elections for six weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak. It alleged that his actions have been politically motivated.
On Friday a division bench of the Andhra High Court, comprising Chief Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice M Satyanaryana Murthy put aside numerous authorities orders changing him with Justice Kanagaraju, a retired choose of the Madras High Court.
The reinstatement is with fast impact and until the top of his time period, the court docket mentioned, noting the state authorities didn’t have the authority to curtail the tenure of the SEC.
Nimmagadda Ramesh resumed workplace as Andhra SEC this afternoon and was quoted by information company ANI as saying: “I have resumed charge. I will discharge my duties fairly and impartially as I did in the past and as mandated”.
He additionally mentioned that “in consultation with the principal stakeholders and all political parties”, electoral course of for the native physique polls can be resumed as quickly as normalcy was restored within the state.
The elections, initially postponed until April 26, have been deferred for a second time earlier this month by Justice Kanagaraj.
The court docket delivered the judgment on a batch of petitions, together with one by Nimmagadda Ramesh that challenged the ordinance and appointment of a brand new SEC.
Other setbacks suffered by the Jagan Mohan Reddy authorities in current days embrace the handing over the Dr K Sudhakar arrest case to the CBI and the setting apart of an order suspending senior IPS officer and former Intelligence chief AB Venkateswara Rao.
The YSR Congress is ready to finish one 12 months in energy on Saturday; Chief Minister Jagan Reddy was sworn in on May 30, 2019.
In an announcement, the state mentioned the Chief Minister had carried out a “slew of welfare and development programmes” and fulfilled “90 per cent of its poll promises”, including that it had additionally emerged as a task mannequin in combating the novel coronavirus.
Andhra has over 3,200 COVID-19 circumstances and 59 deaths thus far. As of May 26, there are almost 15,000 folks in quarantine throughout the state.
With enter from ANI
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