Bombay HC Asks BMC to Take Choice on Rutuja Latke's Resignation
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The Bombay Excessive Courtroom on Thursday requested the Mumbai civic physique what was its issue in deciding on the resignation submitted by Rutuja Latke, the candidate of ‘Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray’ occasion for the upcoming Andheri East Meeting bypoll. A division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Sharmila Deshmukh directed senior counsel Anil Sakhare, showing for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC), to tell the court docket within the afternoon session as to what the civic physique’s stand was.
Latke had moved the excessive court docket on Wednesday searching for a course to the Mumbai civic physique to simply accept her resignation as its worker. “If an worker desires to resign and contest elections, what's the issue? The petitioner is a clerk. Why is the Municipal Commissioner not utilizing his discretion and taking a choice,” Justice Jamdar requested.
“It's simply an employer-employee dispute earlier than us. This isn't even a matter that ought to have come to court docket. The Commissioner ought to have carried out it by now. When will you (BMC) do it? The final date (to submit nomination) is tomorrow,” the bench added.
The final date for submitting the nomination papers for the November 3 by-election is October 14. Latke’s counsel Vishwajeet Sawant informed the court docket that she is simply a clerk, who has no pending dues or enquiries. In regular circumstances, the resignation would have been accepted by the Joint Commissioner itself. “However as a result of political circumstances, her resignation is pending earlier than the Commissioner,” Sawant mentioned.
Sakhare informed the court docket that a resolution on the resignation was not taken because the resignation was faulty. In her petition, Rutuja Latke mentioned the delay by the civic physique in issuing a letter or order (accepting her resignation) seems to be deliberate to stop her from contesting the by-election.
She additionally requested the excessive court docket to permit her to file a nomination for the byelection, necessitated by the dying of her husband and sitting MLA Ramesh Latke. Rutuja Latke, nevertheless, has not talked about the occasion she desires to file the ballot nomination for.
Individually, Rutuja Latke has maintained that she's going to contest the bypoll on the Thackeray faction’s ‘mashaal’ image. The Congress and Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) have pledged help to the ‘Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray’ occasion, making Rutuja Latka the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidate.
The Uddhav Thackeray faction had on Wednesday alleged that Rutuja Latke was being pressured by the group led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to contest on their ticket. The Thackeray faction additionally alleged political stress on the Mumbai civic physique to delay the resignation of Latke as its worker to scuttle her candidature for the November 3 bypoll. Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) commissioner I S Chahal had denied any political stress.
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