A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar said it would consider the matter on Wednesday after counsel D K Garg, appearing for one Rakesh Gautam of Aligarh, sought an early hearing of the plea saying the nomination process for the civic body polls, to be held shortly, have begun.
Gautam, a general category candidate for the post of Khair Nagar Palika chairperson in Aligarh submitted that the poll process was vitiated as the posts were being reserved indiscriminately without any rationale and in a manner, discriminatory to the general category candidates.
In all, there are 630 local bodies comprising of 13 municipal corporations, 194 'nagar palika parishads' and 423 'nagar panchayats' in the state.
The petitioner submitted that reservation of the posts of chairpersons can be done only by rotation. In other words, if a post is reserved for a particular term, then in the subsequent term, it has to be de-reserved, allowing a general category candidate to contest for it.
The UP government, however, in purported exercise of its powers under Section 9 A of the UP Municipalities Act, 1916 has reserved 28 seats in favour of different castes despite the fact that the posts had been reserved in 2001 and 2006 elections, Garg alleged.
Elections to the Nagarpalikas are to be held from June 12 and would conclude by July 10, he said. (More)