Uttarakhand Courtroom Stays Panchayat Elections Over Reservation-Associated Disputes

Final Up to date:June 23, 2025, 12:27 IST

The Uttarakhand Excessive Courtroom has stayed the 2025 Panchayat elections following challenges over reservation-related points.

The Nainital Excessive Courtroom on Monday ordered a keep on the notification of Uttarakhand Panchayat elections, after reservation-related issues from many locations within the state had been challenged within the court docket.

On Saturday, Uttarakhand State Election Commissioner Sushil Kumar on Saturday had introduced that the Panchayat elections 2025 might be held in two phases throughout 12 districts, besides Haridwar.

He additionally stated that the primary section of the 2025 Panchayat elections in Uttarakhand might be held on July 10, adopted by the second section on July 15.

“In Uttarakhand, except for the Haridwar district, a notification has been issued for the three-tier Panchayat elections 2025 throughout 12 districts. The counting of votes will happen on 19 July 2025, and the outcomes might be introduced thereafter,” Sushil Kumar had advised reporters.

Over the past listening to, the Chief Justice’s Bench of the Excessive Courtroom had directed the state authorities to submit its reply within the matter, on which an in depth reply was submitted by the state authorities as we speak on reservation and different issues.

Because the matter was heard as we speak, the court docket stayed the elections.

Asserting Panchayat elections earlier, Kumar had stated the nominations for the polls will start on June 25 and the final date for submitting nominations might be June 28.

The scrutiny of nomination papers will happen from June 29 to July 1, and the symbols might be allotted on July 3, he had introduced.

With the notification of the panchayat polls, the Mannequin Code of Conduct was to come back into impact until the declaration of the outcomes, the state election commissioner stated.

The panchayat elections had been to be held in 12 districts of Uttarakhand.

Vani Mehrotra

Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy Information Editor at News18.com. She has practically 10 years of expertise in each nationwide and worldwide information and has beforehand labored on a number of desks.

Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy Information Editor at News18.com. She has practically 10 years of expertise in each nationwide and worldwide information and has beforehand labored on a number of desks.

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