Jammu, Oct 20: High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh will hear the arguments on petitioners’ side on October 30 in the Public Interest Litigation (PIL), challenging the provisions of the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019, authorising the Lieutenant Governor to nominate five MLAs to the J&K Legislative Assembly, over and above its (assembly’s) sanctioned strength.
In the meanwhile, the speculations flew thick and fast that the government was likely to take a final call vis-à-vis nomination of MLAs very soon. Though there was no official word on this account yet, main petitioner JKPCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma stated, “As long as the matter is sub-judice, the government can not go ahead with the nominations. We had raised this issue before the court earlier also.”
Main argument of Sharma, who has challenged the relevant provisions of the J&K Reorganisation Act, providing for nomination of five MLAs by the Lieutenant Governor, over and above the sanctioned strength of the Legislative Assembly of J&K, with full voting rights, is that the provision, having the potential of converting a minority government into majority government, is against the basic structure of the constitution.
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