DMPQ: Do you think educational qualification should be the criteria for fighting panchayat elections? (POLITY)

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The main objective of the 73rd Constitutional amendment act was to give wider representation and make the citizen at the grass root level a partner in decision making. Educational qualification criteria affects the representative objective as it make more than 60% of the candidates non eligible. The major reasons against the provisions are as follows:

  1. i) it unduly restricts a citizen’s right to contest elections and thereby challenges the basic premise of a republican democracy.
  2. ii) Denying the right to contest effectively restricts the right of a citizen to vote for a candidate of her choice since more than half the population is restricted from contesting

iii)     it disproportionately disenfranchises the more marginal sections of society: women, Dalits and poor.

  1. iv) These restrictions reveal that State governments and courts do not value local governments for their representative character. it reveals that State governments and courts place a premium on administration over representation in case of local governments.
  2. v) Against the principles and objective of 73rd and 74th CAA.

 

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