The Punjab and Haryana high court has issued orders to the Haryana Government to constitute a new committee to reconsider objections to the draft for delimitation of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) wards. As a result, the MCG elections will now be held after further notice.
The petition regarding the issue was initially filed in February 2017 by Bhoop Singh and other residents in the High Court. Pursuant to this, the court directed Haryana Government to put up the final notification before it's published. Based on directions of the court, the government submitted the same to the court in May 2017. Following this, the court allowed the petitioners to challenge the final notification. Gurugram News
In the present scenario, the state government got the final notification published and set up the state machinery to hold MCG elections. However, a fresh petition was filed in the court which challenged the final notification on July 21, 2017. Gurgaon local news
The court has now ordered the Haryana government for constituting a new committee which shall be headed by a secretary of state government to reconsider the objections filed by the petitioner by August 1, 2017.
The MCG elections will now be announced after the High court has considered the submissions of the committee in light of the objections raised.
