Summary:
more-inState government will be filing a Special Leave Petition in the next few days in the Supreme Court to appeal against the High Court’s ruling that reservations should not exceed 50% in the Panchayat elections. It would not have the same status of a survey done as per the guidelines of Government of India. “We are not in a position to state how the Apex Court will dispose of our petition. But the State is going ahead and is geared to hold elections in case the Apex court gives a green signal on prevailing reservations,” highly placed sources said. A scientific survey was necessary to assess the BCs population post bifurcation in the Telangana State to give sanctity to the data, sources said..