The legal battle on the rights of MPs, MLAs and MLCs to vote in the elections to the posts of mayor and deputy mayor of a city corporation has resumed.
A Division Bench of the High Court of Karntaka on Thursday ordered issue of notice to the State government on an appeal filed against a single-judge bench’s verdict upholding the rights of MPs, MLAs and MLCs to vote in the elections of mayor and deputy mayor of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike.
The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice Ravi Malimath passed the order on an appeal filed by Manjunath Raju, a BJP candidate who was defeated in the elections conducted on September 11, 2015.
The notice is initially on the delay in filling the appeal against the November 27, 2015 verdict of the single-judge bench.
The Division Bench also ordered issuing notices to Mayor B.N Manjunath Reddy and Deputy Mayor Hemalatha Gopalaiah.
The single-judge bench had upheld the constitutional validity of Article 243-R and Sections 7 and 10 of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act empowering MPs, MLAs and MLCs to participate in the proceedings of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s council and vote in the elections to the two posts.
