The Supreme Court’s decision to hear a call to order the Telelangany government to increase the quota for the municipalities in local bodies coincides with similar state movements to Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. File | Photo Credit: Hind
The Supreme Court is scheduled to explore on Monday (October 6, 2025) a petition that challenges the order issued by the Revanth Reddy in Telangana, which increases the reception quota in municipalities and Panchayats to 42%, leading to gross reservations in 67%.
The petition raised the question of whether states could increase the overall reservation of seats in local bodies to break 50% of the ceiling. The State Election Commission announced that the election process Panchayat in a state to start from October 9. On October 23 and October 27, it will take place in two phases.
The Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta is scheduled to hear the petition filed by Vanga Gopal Reddy, represented by defending Somiran Sharmou, challenging the government order issued by Telangana 26 September.
“Together with the current 15% for the planned caste and 10% for the planned tribes, the summary reservation exceeds 67%, which directly violates 50% of the ceiling -courtly prescribed the Supreme Court,” the petition said before the Supreme Court.
The 50% rule of the ceiling in the reserve was set by nine judges of the Supreme Court bench on the Mandal Commission Commission of 1992.
The Supreme Court’s decision to listen to the government order of telangany to increase the quota for municipalities in local bodies coincides with similar state movements such as Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to expand the Civil Service reservation in civil services over 50% of the reservation ceiling.
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The Supreme Court is also scheduled to hear a petition next week, which question the legality of section 4 Madhya Pradesh Lok Seva (reservation for planned castes, planned tribes and other backward classes), although it was changed in 2019. insufficiently represented in education, government services and political institutions. “Madhya Pradesh concluded that the 50% limit of reservation was only a” flexible guide and not an unchanged constitutional bar “.
Order 26. September issued by Telangana followed the state’s attempt to enact law, the law on back and reservations of seats in rural and city local bodies), 2025, on increasing the chairs in local bodies by 42%. However, the petition stated that the bill was neither agreed by the governor or president.
“This in itself shows that an increase in reservations exceeding 50% of the ceiling is inadmissible in the eye of the right and, unlike the law stipulated by the Supreme Court through its various judgments,” he said.
Mr. Reddy said that the TELANGANY Government on the scope of municipalities promoting a quota in the local bodies violated Section 285a of the Telangana Act Panchayat Raj in 2018, which explicitly codified 50% of the ceiling in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court in K. Krishn Murty Versus Union of India.
“Despite this legal bar, the state sought to enforce the contested government order, thus acting an ultra virus of the institute and the law,” the petition said.
The judgment of Krishna Murty concluded that “the nature and purpose of reservations in connection with local self -governing governments differ considerably from the nature of higher education and public employment … Upper ceiling 50% of vertical reservations in favor of SCS/STS/OVC should not be violated in connection with local government”.
The petition applied to the Supreme Court’s decision 2021 concerning the elections of the local Maharashtra bodies in the matter of Vikas Kishanrao Gawali, which repeated that 50% of the ceiling cannot be violated.
Mr. Reddy thought that relying to the TELANGANA state on Articles 243d (6) and 243t (6), which seizes states to ensure reservations of seats for backward classes in Panchayatta and municipalities, was completely wrong.
“While These Constitutional Provisions Empower and State Legislature to Make Reserve for Backward Classes in Local Bodies, The Enabling Power is Subject WOULD NOT ONLY UNDERMINE The Rule of Law But Also Cause Grave to Citizens Like the Petitioner, Who Are Entitled to Contest and Participate in Local Self-Government Elections on and Field for Playing, ”Mr. Reddy said.
Published – 4 October 2025 22:51 IS IS
