Summary:
The petitioner has contended that the panchayat tenure and president and vice president’s tenure are co-existantThe president of a district panchayat has challenged an amendment made to the Panchayat Act by the state government in the Gujarat High Court. The amendment has been challenged by the president of Bhavnagar District Panchayat on grounds of equality, whose contention is that panchayat tenure and president and vice president's tenure are co-existant. Even the Panchayat act's section 81 also states same of co-existance of tenure of president/vice president with the panchayat term. In 2015, the state had amended the Panchayat Act reducing the district panchayat's president and vice president's term from five years to two and half years. The petition states that in 2015, the state government had made an amendment in the Panchayat Act 1993 section 81(2) through which it had intended to reduce the tenure of Panchayat president and vice president..